KAMPALA ( Halbeeg News) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against the former Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the Ugandan Police Force (UPF), Kale Kayihura on Friday.
The state department said Kayihura used corruption and bribery while committing gross human rights violations.
“We are targeting Uganda’s former Police Inspector General Kale Kayihura for using corruption and bribery to strengthen his political position, as units under his command committed serious human rights abuses,” said Sigal Mandelker, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
“The U.S. government is committed to leveraging our human rights and corruption authorities to target, disrupt, and counter those who engage in abuse and corruption around the world.”
The statement further said former Uganda police boss was complicit in the inhumane treatment of detainees at the Nalufenya investigation centre during his reign.
“As the IGP for the UPF, Kayihura led individuals from the UPF’s Flying Squad Unit, which has engaged in the inhumane treatment of detainees at the Nalufenya Special Investigations Center (NSIC). Flying Squad Unit members reportedly used sticks and rifle butts to abuse NSIC detainees, and officers at NSIC are accused of having beaten one of the detainees with blunt instruments to the point that he lost consciousness. Detainees also reported that after being subjected to the abuse they were offered significant sums of money if they confessed to their involvement in a crime. ”
General Kale Kayihura was the Inspector General of Police of the Uganda Police Force, the highest rank in that branch of Uganda’s government, from 2005 until March last year.
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