Police have dismissed allegations that have been indicating that Kampala Metropolitan CID Commander Joel Ntabu was torturing and threatening suspects arrested for anti-corruption demonstrations. Over 100 youth protesters were arrested for participating in what was called “March to Parliament” who were demonstrating against corruption.

The suspects were taken to prisons over inciting violence charges, some were relased on bail and they have been accusing police officers including Kampala Metropolitan CID Commander Joel Ntabu of torturing them while they were in police cells. The torture claims indicated that suspects were assaulted, slapped, beaten by police officers under Ntabu’s command.

While speaking to the media today at police headquarters Naguru Kampala, Deputy Police Spokesperson for Kampala Metropolitan, Luke Owoyesigyire dismissed these torture allegations saying the Ntabu cannot supervise suspects hence he had no chances of seeing these suspects and torturing them as they claimed. Owoyesigyire however asked anyone with evidence of being tortured by Ntabu to bring that evidence to Police for investigations.