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The police have said the deployment of officers in the city centre and other parts of the country will continue until there are no more threats from demonstrators.

Mr Kituuma Rusoke, who is the police spokesperson, on Monday said: “The deployments are based on our assessment of threats in the country, so … we shall maintain deployments that commensurate with that threat.”

Mr Rusoke, who was addressing the weekly police press briefing, also said the demonstrations bear hallmarks of hidden hands.

“We know there are several other people behind this arrangement [protests], and that’s why we did not find it comfortable to allow the demonstrations. If these genuine demonstrators had come out, planned with us, we would have facilitated a better and more legitimate expression,” he said.

The strategic security deployment follows a series of demonstrations by Ugandans, mostly the youth, protesting against widespread theft and misuse of taxpayers’ money in government ministries, departments, and agencies.

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