Students who witnessed the shooting speak to the Inspector General of Police Major General Kale Kayihura at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.

I will never stop being amazed by some of the things we wake up to read in the news. This morning am shocked at a news item about students being shot by police while on riot at a Kampala international school. Student riots can get ugly and I have no doubt about that but my question still remains, is live bullets the only way? Police brutality seems to be a common thing in Africa and its really unfair that the people supposed to be protecting us are the same people who we are afraid they would kill us the next minute.

In the streets on Nairobi, there is no difference meeting a police officer and a thug. In fact, its better to meet a thug because if you are lucky, you will be sleeping on your bed. Police will take your money, beat you up and you end up sleeping with drunk people in dirty cells. I wonder what our political voices are doing about this, its a pain that everyone seems to be doing the wrong thing at all public offices.

Back to the point, student riots can be solved in other ways, tear gas is enough to disperse crowds, live shooting will kill them and eliminate a future resource for the nations. Africa needs to train the policeman to be a helper and not a killer.