There are several reports in the local and foreign media that Ugandan government commits arbitrary or unlawful killings. According to media records available within and outside Uganda, Uganda’s Special Security Forces use excessive force and live ammunitions during joint security operations in various districts such as Kampala, Masaka, Jinja, Wakiso among others resulting into deaths.

On January 22, 2011 the police in Uganda arrested one of the government aides called George Agaba, and his bodyguard, Police Constable Santos Makmot Komakech for killing John Onyango, a businessman during an eviction in Kampala.

Komakech, according to eye witnesses fired his gun to disperse a crowd, resulting in Onyango’s death. Ugandan government authorities charged Agaba and Komakech with murder but it later released them.

Uganda police force is not excluded. On March 2, 2011 the police arrested its officers in Masaka for killing a suspect. The police officers arrested over murder included Assistant Inspector of Police,  Apollo Bamwesige, officer in charge of Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Enock Bategyerize, Police Constable Peter Bagonza, Sergeant Joseph Migadde, and Corporal Anatoli Andudia.

On May 14, the same year, the police in Bugiri, Eastern Uganda arrested two police officers Raymond Mallinga and Walter Wandera for killing Fred Jingo after he failed to stop his motor vehicle when requested to do so. He was fired twice and died the following day.

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