Eronda
JF-Expert Member
- Dec 16, 2025
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Yesterday’s national cleaning exercise was meant to be a day of unity, civic responsibility, and collective action against poor sanitation. Instead, it descended into scenes of brutality that left people questioning whether this initiative is truly about cleanliness or about control.
Across different areas, enforcement teams were seen beating and pushing citizens in an inhuman manner, forcing them to sweep as if cleanliness were a punishment rather than a shared duty. The most tragic incident was the fatal shooting of a man, Allan Okello, by a police officer. What should have been a peaceful exercise ended in bloodshed, grief, and anger.
This raises a painful question: Has the national sweeping exercise lost its purpose? When citizens are coerced through violence, the spirit of civic duty is replaced by fear. Instead of motivating Ugandans to embrace sanitation, such actions risk planting seeds of hate toward both the security forces and the government.
Personally, I believe that national cleaning should be about persuasion, education, and community mobilization. People should be inspired to participate because they understand the health benefits and the pride of living in a clean environment. But when enforcement is carried out with batons and bullets, the message changes it tells citizens that their dignity is secondary, and that compliance is demanded at any cost.
Enforcer Forces an elderly woman who claims to be sick to sweeping while beating the young girls
Across different areas, enforcement teams were seen beating and pushing citizens in an inhuman manner, forcing them to sweep as if cleanliness were a punishment rather than a shared duty. The most tragic incident was the fatal shooting of a man, Allan Okello, by a police officer. What should have been a peaceful exercise ended in bloodshed, grief, and anger.
This raises a painful question: Has the national sweeping exercise lost its purpose? When citizens are coerced through violence, the spirit of civic duty is replaced by fear. Instead of motivating Ugandans to embrace sanitation, such actions risk planting seeds of hate toward both the security forces and the government.
Personally, I believe that national cleaning should be about persuasion, education, and community mobilization. People should be inspired to participate because they understand the health benefits and the pride of living in a clean environment. But when enforcement is carried out with batons and bullets, the message changes it tells citizens that their dignity is secondary, and that compliance is demanded at any cost.
Enforcer Forces an elderly woman who claims to be sick to sweeping while beating the young girls
