Human rights activists, freedom fighters, members of opposition, members of the academia world, traders and workers unions are shocked after receiving unconfirmed information that the police in Uganda since April 2011 has been employing expired teargas on them.

Uganda buys teargas from South Africa. A source in Uganda police wrote to the office of the Democratic Party, Forum for Democratic Change and to opposition Activists for Change (A4C) alerting them that the teargas canisters the police have been using to scatter rioters and quell demonstrations has been expired.

In the same letter the source requested the leaders of Uganda’s opposition parties to investigate and expose the dangers the police has been exposing to Ugandans.

It is like now a habit for police to find peaceful demonstrators protesting against poor sanitation, dictatorship, poor government policies and employs teargas on them.

The source fears that the teargas Uganda Police has been employing on Ugandans may cause heart related diseases. Efforts to get a comment from the internal affairs minister, who is the person in charge of police and prisons, were futile.