Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Govt decries acts of apprehension on innocent civilians
The government has issued a directive to police force
in the country saying that, there is no permission to apprehend innocent
civilians in place of the hard core criminals whom they have suspected to have
committed a crime on the alleged scene. The directives were issued last week by
the Minister of Home Affairs Dr. Mwigulu Nchemba when responding to a
supplementary question which was raised by special seat legislator Devota Minja
(Chadema). The legislator wanted to know from the home affairs ministry why is
it that, some police officers have a tendency of apprehending innocent
civilians from the scene of incident once they see to have missed the real
suspected criminal. The legislator elaborated more and noted that, the police
gets stranded once they miss a suspected criminal from the scene and command
their wives or children in place and take them to police station for
interrogation as though are criminals. Responding to this question, Home
Affairs minister said that as the police perform their duties in accordance
with the laid down laws and regulations, under the scenarios, there is no
permission whatsoever to work on contrary to the assigned laws except have the
obligation of looking for the real offenders.
Minister of Home Affairs Dr. Mwigulu Nchemba
“The police should look for the
real offenders as it is not wise for someone to be subjected for torture for the
mistakes alleged to have been committed by another person, this is not
accepted”, said the minister. He further noted that, the suspected criminal
should be held responsible and if he or she is not found, the police must use
their queer intelligence actions in order to get rid of them and not otherwise.
The minister’s responses has come hardly one week ago when the local media
reported that, a woman aged 29 years in Kilombero district was mistakenly
apprehended by the police and taken to police station when the police missed
her husband who was alleged to have
bought a stolen bed in the district. In a mysterious condition contrary to
humanitarian grounds, a woman who was about to give birth to a baby started to
cry for labor pain while locked inside a police cell and was later on taken out,
and no sooner had she given birth outside the police station than she had
arrived to hospital for delivery. The action has caused a serious debate among
the public domain as inhuman act although the police had confessed that it had
formed a probing committee to investigate the matter and would release the
outcome of their findings soon.
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