By Mubiru Ivan
President Yoweri Museveni has ordered police to stop arresting youth in slums popularly known as ghetto youth.
The President made the directive on Monday at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds as Uganda joined the rest of the world to commemorate the International Anti-Corruption Day.
Museveni said police should stop arresting the ghetto youth in the name of idle and disorderly.
He described the vice as ‘a colonial nonsense’ that must stop immediately.
“I have told the new leadership of the Police to stop arresting our children in the slums accusing them of being idle and disorderly. This is colonial nonsense, it must stop,” he stressed.
Museveni’s move is observed as a way of trying to neutralize Kyadondo East Member of Parliament Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine)’s support among the youth living in ghettos.
The ghetto youth are known as Bobi Wine’s number one supporters due to his close association with them. He grew up in the Kamwokya ghetto.
The legislator is the leader of People Power movement which aims at changing Uganda’s political fortune.
The movement is generally supported by the youth who make 78 per cent of the country’s population.
This not the first time, the President is trying to counteract Bobi Wine-ghetto youth relationship.
In September this year, Museveni donated millions of shillings to Kamwokya ghetto youth. He advised them to start being productive as a way of improving their livelihood other than hobnobbing with the opposition that will take them nowhere.
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