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What started as a show of might by the military and the police against Mityana MP Francis Zaake in Mityana District in 2020 has thrown senior police and military officers in the eye of the storm.

The four police officers, whom court found to have been involved in the torture of MP Zaake, have been sanctioned by the United States of America.

The officers are Senior Commissioner of Police (Retired) Elly Womanya, who was once the head of Special Investigations Unit; Assistant Commissioner of Police Bob Kagarura, the former regional commander for Wamala Police Region; Superintendent of Police Alex Mwine, the then police commander for Mityana District; and Inspector of Police Hamdan Twesigye.

The US sanctions forbid them and their close family members from travelling to the United States on grounds that they were involved in torture, cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment.

“The reports that Kagarura, Mwine, Twesigye, and Womanya were involved in gross violations of human rights, as documented by Ugandan civil court documents, civil society organizations, and independent journalists, are serious and credible,” the US sanction statement reads.

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