In part two of this Podcast, I disabuse some of the false impressions created by some western media outlets on the heavy-handedness of some African security forces during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Some headlines in western media like the [France 24] April story headline entitled-" Curfew crackdowns in several African countries kill more people than COVID-19" and the July BBC story headline entitled-"Uganda where security forces may be deadlier than the Coronavirus" seemed to be a little alarmist and far-fetched.
In my estimation, the contentious headlines, principally the France 24 headline, stretched the truth as a bait to get people to read the story.
Yes, there were African security forces that had acted highhandedly as they enforced the COVID-19 containment measures but, I take exception to the notion that they killed more people than Corona.
The last time I checked, John Hopkins University Global COVID-19 updates, Corona had killed 18,200 in Africa.
It is inconceivable therefore that African security forces could have killed more people than the figure the University gives?
Also by the time I did the podcast, only nine people had died of Corona in Uganda compared to the 12 people killed by the Local defense Unit forces as they enforced COVID-19 measures.
By now, the figures may have changed, but at that time, going by media records, the LDU's had killed more people than Corona.
In this episode, I also picked the minds of seasoned Ugandan lawyers, Daniel Walyemera and Nicholas Opiyo.
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