Mugusu Sub County faces poor services in the security sector.

Local citizens of Mugusu Sub County in Kabarole District are facing poor services in the security sector.  The Sub County has one of the biggest markets in Kabarole District that attracts a big number of local people from different districts across the country every Wednesday in every week. The big population of business men and women and their customers that attend the market has increased cases of insecurity and high crimes in the sub county.

However, there is only one police cell in the whole of Mugusu Sub County which was built in the 1970s for the law breakers. The cell has only one small room that is shared by men, women and children, dirty and smelling, has cracks all over and is threatening to fall. 

 

A cracked window at Mugusu police cell block

 “As rural monitors, we visited the police cell and found out that the environment was alarming. Eight (8) people who were both men and women were sharing a small locked room without blankets, mattresses, basins, light or a nearer water source. We communicated to the CID of the police station and he said that he talked to the Sub County leaders about the issue but all has been in vain. We are following up this issue to see that the services in the police cell are improved. The prison should be extended, utensils bought and also cells for men, women and children constructed”, said Mukwano Ssenyonjo, the Chairman of People’s Rights and Forum for Development in Mugusu Sub County, Kabarole District.