Bushenyi woman accuses police post boss of torture
Ms Annet Kyoyesiga shows her damaged ear during an interview in Bushenyi Town last Friday. PHOTO BY ZADOCK AMANYISA.
BUSHENYI- A woman in Kisibo village in Bumbaire Sub-county, Bushenyi District, has accused a police officer of torture, leading to persistent bleeding from her ears.
Ms Annet Kyoyesiga, a widow, was reportedly beaten last month by the officer in charge of Bumbaire Police Post.
In an interview last Friday, Ms Kyoyesiga told Daily Monitor that on April 4, while at Bumbaire Police Post where she had gone to stand surety for her step-brother, the officer in charge of the post, Mr Vincent Musoke, punched her and later hit her with a gun butt.
“My step-brother, who had been arrested called me to have him released,” she said. However, upon reaching the police post, she claims, Mr Musoke ordered her arrest on allegations that she had kidnapped his nieces - Praise Mweteise and Kembabazi - who had escaped from their mother’s home in Kagarama, Ntungamo District.
“He grabbed and slapped me in the right ear. He punched me in the neck and later beat me with a gun butt,” she said, adding the beating injured my eye, ear, and teeth. She was later released on bond and sought medical attention at Kyeizooba Farmers Clinic in Bushenyi Town, which referred her to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital.
Ms Kyoyesiga has since petitioned Uganda Human Rights Commission, which according to Ms Theopista Twembi, the UHRC Mbarara regional officer, has summoned Mr Musoke to defend himself.
Mr Musoke, however, denied the claims, saying: “That woman is a mufere (con woman). She wanted to grab my gun when I was arresting her and in the scuffle she knocked her head on the gun butt.”
Mr Micheal Musani Sabila, the Greater Bushenyi regional police commander, said Mr Musoke has already been summoned for investigations.
