Armed senior UPDF officer raids Bududa police station, beats up officers

A Uganda Peoples Defence Force Brigadier General in Bududa District is under investigation on allegations of frogging and caning two police officers, whom he accused of delaying to handle a criminal case of his relatives.

According to a crime case: CRB 111/2026 of Bulukyeke Police Station, Bududa District, the suspect (Brigadier General) is accused of three counts, including assault of police officers on duty, threatening violence and theft that happened at Bulukyeke police station at 7:40pm on June 23, 2026.

A police source said the suspect, alongside his bodyguards, visited the police station and summoned Detective Constable David Olar to talk to him.

“The suspect, at the rank of a Brigadier General, commanded his bodyguard to call Detective Corporal David Olar while he stood outside with a long stick.’’

Adding that: ‘’When the officer reached him while paying compliments, the General grabbed him by his collar, threw him down, and then cocked his pistol.’’ The source recalled

Noting that: ‘’He furiously questioned why his relatives are not handled well whenever they report their cases to that station,” the source said.

Elgon Police Spokesperson, Mr Rogers Taitika, confirmed the incident, saying that their officers at a police station in Bududa District were allegedly assaulted by a UPDF General officer, adding that investigations are ongoing.

“It is true. We are investigating the matter,” Senior Superintendent of Police Taitika said on Thursday.

Mr Taitika said the investigations are being conducted jointly by the police and the UPDF.

It is said that the General’s actions stem from a complaint by one of his relatives who was involved in an accident a few weeks ago.

According to sources privy to the case, police officers were allegedly kept toasting the General’s relatives who visited the station several times without concluding the investigations.

The furious Brigadier General allegedly ordered the officer to lie on the ground.

The source disclosed that as the frogging was taking place, a police crime intelligence officer, Rebecca Nakami, used her mobile phone to take a video of the incident, prompting the General`s guard to seize her mobile phone.

“That Crime intelligence officer, DC Nakami, got concerned, and video covered the incident. Instead, the General grabbed her phone, slapped her seriously and ordered her to delete whatever she had recorded. He also confiscated her phone and never gave it back to her,” a source said.

This incident was witnessed by civilians, who had gone to follow up on their cases.

After the incident, the source said the General officer left the station.

D/CPL Olar sustained injuries to his knees. He was taken to the medical facility, where he was examined, and a medical report was shared with the police as evidence in the case. Detective Nakami is yet to recover her mobile phone.

“The Genera has a history of attacking police officers, yet no action has ever been taken against him since, likely because he is feared,” a source said.

Another source said the police are yet to summon the Brigadier General to record a statement.

This incident is one of the many cases in which soldiers raid police stations and beat up police officers.

In June last year, 20 soldiers in four Toyota vans commonly known as drones raided Wakiso Police Division, sieged the district police commander at the rank of a Superintendent of Police and her personnel assistant before they discharged several bullets.

The heavily armed soldiers attached to the Presidential Task Force on Land Matters and the Environment accused the police commander of failing them in the land dispute.

A month before the Wakiso incident, soldiers raided Lubowa Police Station, beat up police officers, including the Officer-in-charge, at the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police, and the civilians before robbing them of money, mobile phones, government stores and other items.

The raid followed the soldiers' arrest of eight people they accused of different offences, like attempting to assassinate a judicial officer and wrongful parking in Lubowa Housing Estate, and handed them to the police, who declined to detain them.

Police later opened offences of attempted murder and aggravated robbery against the soldiers.

All the cases have not yet been concluded

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