President Yoweri Museveni has mentioned the nation can’t be affluent if it retains experiencing circumstances of insecurity.
In response to the President, whereas the prosperity of Uganda and Africa entails getting every particular person or household concerned within the manufacturing of products and providers, strategic safety is vital to enabling this.
“You can not create prosperity by giving donations or handouts from the federal government; you need to allow the inhabitants to provide items or providers and promote them, and in that approach, every household can get cash to construct a affluent life,” H.E. Museveni mentioned.
On Friday, August 4, 2023, the President delivered a lecture of alternative to the officers below the Felony Investigations Directorate (CID) of Uganda Police at State Home Entebbe.
The 71 officers within the ranks of Superintendents of Police and Assistant Superintendents of Police have been present process coaching at Kabalye Police Coaching College.
The President gave an instance of the Parish Improvement Mannequin and different authorities applications the place the federal government has been giving grants and different objects, similar to animals, to the SACCOs, however they find yourself being stolen and little is being performed to get well them.
“How will the folks get out of poverty?” the President questioned, including that strategic safety meant the capability to create a protection and legislation and order infrastructure to ensure peace for Ugandans in order that they’ll produce items and providers.
“CID is to make sure there’s no crime so that individuals can produce items and providers for prosperity. So, once you get a CID or police officer who just isn’t doing his or her work, he’s undermining our prosperity,” Museveni additional famous.
He mentioned strategic safety is among the many missions of the NRM revolution, and CID officers ought to play a key function in defending the folks towards inside and exterior threats like what’s taking place in components of West Africa the place the political class doesn’t know what to do.
The President additionally urged the officers to all the time bear in mind the 4 ideas that make up the ideology of the Nationwide Resistance Motion: Patriotism (anti-sectarianism), Pan- Africanism (believing in East Africa & Africa), Socio-economic transformation, and democracy, saying these are to deal with the strategic objectives of Africa from 1900, when the entire of it had been colonized.
“Pan-Africanism is important as a result of it offers folks with the regional market of East Africa and Africa in addition to a global one,” Museveni famous.
The Director of the Felony Investigations Directorate (CID), Assistant Inspector Normal of Police (AIGP) Tom Magambo, thanked President Museveni for the latest promotions within the Uganda Police, the place a complete of 1900 CID officers have been promoted, saying it elevated their morale to carry out their duties.
Main Magambo mentioned up to now, a complete of 138 CID officers have been educated, and one other batch of 72 officers shall be despatched to Kabalye for coaching for efficient efficiency.
He mentioned the officers have been educated in ideological growth after which the technical features of investigating prison circumstances, which have grounded them of their capacity to understand what their particular function ought to be in selling the socio-economic agenda.
“We’re going to cut back the justifications, particularly with regards to serving our folks, and we will contribute immensely to the socio-economic transformation agenda,” AIGP Magambo mentioned.
He additional welcomed President Museveni’s thought and steerage on the phased implementation of the sub-county police mannequin.
“We sit up for your steerage and assist within the implementation of this roadmap, and once you do this, Your Excellency, we’re optimistic that we aren’t going to let this nation down. We promise Your Excellency that we will deal with the work you’ve got assigned us very effectively,” Main Magambo mentioned.
The CID Directorate is remitted to make sure the efficient detection, investigations, and prevention of crimes.
