President Yoweri Museveni has directed security agencies that no person should be arrested for the crime of “idle and disorderly”.
In a memo seen by this website dated October1, 2019 to concerned security personnel, the Inspector General of Police-IGP, Martin Okoth Ochola says that the President “has also directed that those already arrested for this crime, be released immediately and prosecution discontinued.”
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The circular adds that Museveni has directed that all people arrested by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) enforcement personnel in Kampala and are in prison for failure to pay a fine of Shs1m be released immediately but warned not to repeat the offense of selling merchandise on the pavements.