The Uganda police force is set to start growing its own food due to high cost of food across the country. We have heard that the inspector general of police Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura has instructed the force’s director for research, Julius Sharita to find land on which all police officers and men will be required to grow own food.

According to sources, Sharita working on advice from Kayihura is touring idle prison land across the country and if found Kayihura will ask the prison heads to let the police use it for cultivation purposes.

The police are currently in deep financial crisis because much of their budget has been used up, especially in querying walk to work protests.

Sharita tells this reporter that the more number of policemen the police deploy to control the demonstrators the more food the force buys. Police commissioners Abongo Apio and Sabuni Mwesigye and Samuel Luvumba confirm that Kayihura has instructed police to start growing own food.

By Christine Kate