Police have asked the members of the public to report to it people who carry illegal weapons in their respective communities. The Kampala Central Police Station commander, James Ruhweza says that people carrying illegal military hardware are not necessary in the country.

Ruhweza promises that police will not expose the people who will give it information leading to arrest of people carrying illegal weapons like pistols, guns etc.

The police call come just days after it stopped the Inter Party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) chairman, Omar Kalinge Nyago and searched his car over suspicion that it was carrying illegal weapons. Nyago’s IPOD brings together six political parties represented in Parliament, namely the Conservative Party, Democratic Party, Forum for Democratic Change, Justice Forum, Uganda Peoples Congress and the ruling National Resistance Movement of president Museveni.

Kalinge Nnyago was intercepted by a fleet of five police patrol vehicles near the IPOD offices at Katonga Road in Kampala as he was driving his family members back home on Tuesday after breaking the Muslim fast.

Kalinge says that his vehicle was attacked by a number of armed men in civilian clothes in three unmarked cars who formed part of what appeared to be a planned security operation targeting him.