Kidnaps: FDC Women Threaten Force If Restricted from Meeting IGP

Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Women’s League have vowed to adopt forceful means in their endavour to meet tomorrow with the Inspector General of Police (IGP), John Martins Okoth Ochola should they be denied access.

The group of women from the FDC will tomorrow delivered a petition to the IGP expressing their displeasure with the rampant kidnaps and murders of women. The FDC women say they have made attempts to get in touch with the IGP but that he has failed to respond to their communications.

This was said Monday by the party’s Women’s League Spokesperson, Sarah Eperu who revealed that they to go in a group of about 100 people. She however noted that failure to allow them access to the IGP’s office might prompt them to apply force.

“On top of the grand demonstration at the end of the month, we are going to petition the IGP at his headquarters in Naguru tomorrow at 10am. We wrote to him over our meeting with him but he hasn’t responded,” Eperu said.

“Our mission is a very peaceful one. We want to have a one-on-one with him over the rampant kidnaps and murder of women but in case peace fails, force will prevail.”

They also plan to visit victims of last year’s murders in Katabi Entebbe as well as petitioning Parliament and holding a grand sit down demonstration at constitutional square come June 30.

“We shall be going to Katabi in Entebbe on June 14 to visit families of the victims of the rampant women kidnap,” she told the press.

She said that on 21st June, the party women shall take a petition to Kadaga and to the Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA) and that this will be conducted in conjunction with the different parties’ women leagues and some members of the civil society.