Uganda: Family, Tribe Come Between Breaking and Enforcing Law

28 November 2016
opinion

No sooner had the police opened investigations into the fatal shooting of Kenneth Akena two weeks ago than red-hot corners of social media started asserting that detectives would cover up the truth and defeat justice.

Commentators cited ethnicity given that a suspect, Mr Matthew Kanyamunyu, is from western Uganda and Akena from northern. This is of course in line with what some have called the north-south divide, a zero-sum politico-economic dichotomy that has been talked about for decades. The northerners once ruled, now it's the southerners who are having all the fun and the loot and all State institutions are rigged in their favour.

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