Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni has told his citizens it is time they implement capturing of finger prints and DNA records in order to eliminate crime in the country.
The president also urged on his official twitter account that authorities halt the unregulated sale of mobile phone SIM cards.The president also plans to install CCTV cameras in urban areas ‘in the next few months.
This became a top security issue in the country after the kidnap and brutal murder of 28 year old Susan Magara whose body was dumped in Kigo, a suburb of the capital, Kampala, that is along the newly constructed Kampala-Entebbe expressway.
DNA records of everybody are good to compare with blood samples, sweat, sperm etc could be used to track down a criminal at the scene of the crime
The president who has previously called for the installation of cameras in urban areas as a measure to counter crime, believes that is this had been done, whoever dumped Magara’s body could have been identified.
Police in Uganda have put in place a reward of 100 million Uganda
shillings for anyone with clues that might lead to the identification, arrest and conviction of the kidnappers.
The police released an audio clip of the kidnappers demanding ransom from Magara’s family. The family says the kidnappers made several calls using unregistered simcards, thus the president’s directives to check unregulated sale of mobile simcards.
In May last year, Ugandans were ordered to have their sim cards registered using the electronic National identity cards or risk disconnection, following the gruesome murder of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Andrew Felix Kaweesi.
However, nearly a year later, security agencies are struggling with a series of murders, kidnaps and fleecing of money, where criminals use unregistered simcards to coordinate their operation.
‘‘DNA records of everybody are good to compare with blood samples, sweat, sperm etc found at the scene of crime. Palm-prints are better than thumb prints because the criminal may leave the palm-print and not thumb print,’‘ Museveni said.
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The president also urged on his official twitter account that authorities halt the unregulated sale of mobile phone SIM cards.The president also plans to install CCTV cameras in urban areas ‘in the next few months.
This became a top security issue in the country after the kidnap and brutal murder of 28 year old Susan Magara whose body was dumped in Kigo, a suburb of the capital, Kampala, that is along the newly constructed Kampala-Entebbe expressway.
DNA records of everybody are good to compare with blood samples, sweat, sperm etc could be used to track down a criminal at the scene of the crime
The president who has previously called for the installation of cameras in urban areas as a measure to counter crime, believes that is this had been done, whoever dumped Magara’s body could have been identified.
Police in Uganda have put in place a reward of 100 million Uganda
The police released an audio clip of the kidnappers demanding ransom from Magara’s family. The family says the kidnappers made several calls using unregistered simcards, thus the president’s directives to check unregulated sale of mobile simcards.
In May last year, Ugandans were ordered to have their sim cards registered using the electronic National identity cards or risk disconnection, following the gruesome murder of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Andrew Felix Kaweesi.
However, nearly a year later, security agencies are struggling with a series of murders, kidnaps and fleecing of money, where criminals use unregistered simcards to coordinate their operation.
‘‘DNA records of everybody are good to compare with blood samples, sweat, sperm etc found at the scene of crime. Palm-prints are better than thumb prints because the criminal may leave the palm-print and not thumb print,’‘ Museveni said.
