The Inspector General of Police Martins Okoth Ochola told Parliament recently that he was working on the legal documents to close the infamous and dreaded detention center that had become a symbol of torture of suspects in police custody, the special Force Operation commonly Known as Nalufenya
In a message from Police Headquarters, the directorate of Logistics and Engineering was ordered to transform it back to a police station. Nalufenya was formaly established by the former IGP Gen Kale Kayihura at the height of killing Muslim clerics in eastern Uganda.
The facility was used to detain violent and high profile criminals. The facility was used by Special Operations Unit officers to interrogate suspects. There have been allegations of torture of suspects in Nalufenya Detention Centre.
Uganda Human Rights Commission chairman Med Kaggwa and his team visited the facility last year and they were told by some female detainees that officers there had denied them chance to breastfeed their babies.
The suspects had been arrested on suspicion of being part of the group that killed former police spokesman Andrew Felix Kaweesi.
