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The Police force through its spokesman Fred Enanga announced yesterday, Wednesday the July 12, that they were dragging the media house to courts of law for claiming in a story that the IGP had been flown out of the country for treatment.
“The Director Legal and Human Rights Services, has taken up the matter and will take legal action against the Media house for giving false and misleading information to the public,” Enanga said.
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New Vision ran a front page headline on Wednesday, that read, “IGP Ochola Hospitalized,” in which it reported that the police boss had been unwell and reportedly flown out of the country for treatment.
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The paper further reported that Ochola has been accompanied by the Police Surgeon and his Personal Assistant on the medical trip abroad.
However, Police spokesman Enanga refuted these claims, explaining that Ochola was in fact still Uganda and had only checked in a city hospital with an eye problem.
“The story is false and misleading. The IGP had an eye check up at Argawal Hospital along Lumumba Avenue. He was examined, treated and advised to take seven days rest at home. He is reachable physically and on the phone,” Enanga said.
Enanga went on to describe the New Vision report as rumors and misinformation.