Ugandan drunkards in the Kampala who seem to be missing their nightlife have decided to take desperate alternatives to convene and enjoy their liquor in the company of each other, breaking the presidential guidelines on social distancing and gatherings.
It is reckless actions of people like this that have prompted the police under the Joint Security Taskforce -JSTF to throw defilers of the presidential guidelines behind coolers.
An operation carried out on Wednesday in Bukoto, a Kampala suburb busted sixteen people that stubbornly closed themselves inside a bar that was operating illegally after they learned that police were patrolling the area.
The group of defiant youth is now in custody at Mulimira police post for violating the guidelines on social gatherings.
Muhammad Kabugo, the Mulimira Zone LC 1 Defense Secretary says the community is vigilant and has vowed to keep fighting such people who want to endanger the lives of other Ugandans through their reckless behavior.
Patrick Ndemeezi, the Officer in Charge of Mulimira police post spearheaded the operation on Wednesday night after getting information from locals that small night bars were illegally collecting reckless people for liquor enjoyment.
Ndemeezi explains that the suspects were found drinking in bars but when they realized that police were patrolling the area, they locked themselves inside bars in violation of the president’s ban on social gatherings.
He says they will be charged with the act likely spread the infection of disease.
