Uganda, Sept. 25 -- Human rights activists have asked the government to scrap petty offences out of Ugandan law books, saying keeping them does not address the underlying social economic problems the country is facing now.
This was revealed during a national stakeholder's dialogue on the decriminalization and declassification of petty offences in Uganda at Golf Course Hotel on Thursday.
Dr Adrian Juuko, the Executive Director Human Rights Awareness and promotion forum (HRAP), said that the sections forming these offenses are outdated as they were made by the colonial masters to discriminate against vulnerable and poor Africans.
"These offences were invented by whites to discriminate against poor Africans, keep them far away from them and...