IGP Ochola closes Nalufenya
What you need to know:
Nalufenya Detention Centre, which was formerly a police station, was established by the former IGP Gen Kale Kayihura.
It was established at the height of killing Muslim clerics in eastern Uganda.
Uganda Human Rights Commission chairman Mr Med Kaggwa and his team visited the facility last year and they were told by some female detainees that officers there had denied them chance to breastfeed their babies.
KAMPALA.
The police have closed Special Forces Operation Base commonly known as Nalufenya in Jinja District.
In a message from Police Headquarters, the directorate of Logistics and Engineering was ordered to transform it back to a police station.
The Inspector General of Police Martins Okoth Ochola told Parliament recently that he was working on the legal documents to close the infamous and dreaded detention centre that had become a symbol of torture of suspects in police custody.
Nalufenya Detention Centre, which was formerly a police station, was established by the former IGP Gen Kale Kayihura at the height of killing Muslim clerics in eastern Uganda.
The facility was used to detain violent and high profile criminals.
The facility was used by Special Operations Unit officers to interrogate suspects.
There have been allegations of torture of suspects in Nalufenya Detention Centre.
Uganda Human Rights Commission chairman Mr Med Kaggwa and his team visited the facility last year and they were told by some female detainees that officers there had denied them chance to breastfeed their babies.
The suspects had been arrested on suspicion of being part of the group that killed former police spokesman Andrew Felix Kaweesi.
