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By Francis Otucu
Uganda Human Rights Commission has decried the alarming increase in cases of defilement.
This, after the latest case being that of a teacher attached to Spring Fields International in Kibiri who defiled his pupil.
Other notable cases are; 13-year-old girl defiled by a 50-year-old in the northern district of Otuke.
This particular incident is said to have given the victim a lifetime complication after being confined in a house for nearly nine months while two girls; 13 and 15 were defiled in Bukiwe by their grandfather, an LCI Chairperson of Busaale on July 23, 2019.
A 16-year-old was also defiled by her father identified as Musa Kyambadde, 47 in Iganga.
The victim was impregnated as a result. Now, addressing a press conference in Kampala on Friday, Commission’s Chairperson, Med S. K. Kaggwa said the Penal Code Act under sections 129, 130, 132 and 133 makes defilement and/or any attempt to procure defilement, criminal.
“We call upon parents and guardians to put in place safe guards to protect girls from defilement and also not to negotiate with the offenders on ground of settling matters outside court. Additionally, courts should expedite cases related to defilement so that complainants do not lose interest in them,” he said, appealing to government and the Ministry of Education and Sports to strengthen monitoring in schools and come up with community sensitization programmes targeting communities where defilement is on the rise.
Kaggwa was delivering a statement on what he described as an upsurge in Human Rights violation, increasing insecurity and criminality in the country when he tasked the police to expeditiously conclude the investigations into the death of Michael Alinda alias Ziggy Wine as well as mysterious murders of boda boda cyclists and mobile money operators and make their final reports public to reassure citizens of adequate security in the country.
“The UHRC calls upon the Police to expedite the promised investigations involving review of CCTV footage and issue a comprehensive report to the public,” he noted.
On the arrest of Advocate Patrick Mugisha, he said Internal Security Organizations should operate within the provisions of the Security Organizations’ Act 1987 especially Section 4 (1) and (2).
“The UHRC condemns such arrests and notes that Mr. Mugisha was also deprived of the right to a fair hearing which is one of the rights enshrined in Articles 28 and 44 ( c ) of the Constitution and highly condemns such human rights violations,” he said.
Kaggwa also weighed in on the ‘bottling’ of Magistrate, Gladys Kamasanyu.
He said under Article 126 (1) of the Constitution, Judicial Power is derived from the people and is exercised in the name of the people and therefore juducial officers are expected to be given all the support they need by both the state and the public so as to reach a just decision,” Kaggwa said, condemning the incident.
