KAMPALA
The former Criminal Investigations Directorate spokesperson, Mr Charles Twiine, has reportedly gone missing for three days now after he visited Police Headquarters at Naguru.
Detective Assistant Superintendent of Police Twiine was allegedly summoned at police headquarters to meet the Inspector General of Police on Wednesday, but his whereabouts are unknown since.
Twiine’s wife, Ms Kate Kabagenyi says she visited police headquarters to find out the whereabouts of her husband, but she is being tossed around.
“Since morning[Friday ], I have been at police headquarters. Each officer is telling me to talk to another. No one is giving me clear information on his whereabouts. We have evidence that he arrived and entered police headquarters.
His personal car that he drove is still parked at police headquarters,” Ms Kabagenyi said on Friday.
Twiine was deployed to the Parliament as an investigation officer.
Ms Kabagenyi said she visited Parliament and talked to the senior officers there.
“They also told me that they don’t know where he is,” she said.
Ms Kabagenyi says she has reported a case of disappearance/missing person at Kasangati Police Station to enable the police commence investigations.
According to police sources, when Twiine arrived at police headquarters, he visited the second floor of police headquarters at Naguru where the IGP and his deputy sit.
At around midday, men in civilian clothes suspected to be members of the police sister agency escorted him out of the building. He hasn’t been seen again.
According to police standing orders, the police are required to inform the next of kin of the person held in their custody or handed over to any other lawful agency and his or her whereabouts.
The detained individual has the right to be accessed by his or her lawyers or relatives while in detention.
Disappearances and abductions in Uganda have become common.
Several Opposition supporters mainly from National Unity Platform (NUP) have gone missing or disappeared.
Some of those that have reappeared narrate that they were tortured by security agents during their detention.
Police officers have also been victims of illegal arrests or disappearances