By Spy Uganda
The Uganda Police have started arresting drunkards who are found in bars drinking alcohol behind closed doors, yet this breaches the Ministry of Health directive on maintaining social distance.
This comes after a team of policemen on patrol busted a group of revellers gulping booze at Makutano Hotel in Nansana, a Kampala suburb, on Sunday, in total disregard of all COVID-19 prevention guidelines.
Shortly after their arrest, Police spokesperson Patrick Onyango tweeted that; “Police in Nansana, today evening carried out an operation in and around Makutano Hotel and found people defying Presidential directives. We found the sauna functional, the bar open and business as usual. Over 30 people were arrested and detained at Nansana Police Station.”
According to our sources, culprits were not wearing face masks, were seated very close to each other instead of maintaining social distance while others were recklessly touching themselves, which are all in breach of the COVID-19 preventive measures.
The Police revealed that the suspects will be charged with engaging in acts that are likely to propagate the spread of COVID-19.
We have since learnt that police and LDU operatives have started checking all bars, drinking joints, hotels and Saunas, after receiving intelligence that the owners of these facilities sell booze to their customers behind closed doors.
According to intelligence received by police, most bars appear closed during day or night time but the operators open for some ‘trusted customers’ and lock them inside the bars to drink and watch football. Later in the night, the bar owners open for the drunkos and one by one they saunter out.
The police observe that this kind of behaviour is likely to create fertile ground for the spread of COVID-19 since it disregards the Presidential Directives on preventing the spread of the virus.
It should be noted that in March this year President Yoweri Museveni ordered for the closure of bars, hotels, schools, universities, churches and other facilities where people gather in huge numbers, as one of the ways of avoiding crowds, so as to prevent the spread of Coronavirus.
