Uganda, Feb. 17 -- In 2019, an unidentified UPDF officer driving a salon car knocked dead three pedestrians in Namayiba Trading Centre on the Mukono-Katosi road as he trailed illegal fishermen riding a motorcycle loaded with fish.

The soldier, whose car had overturned before it settled in a garden on the lower side of the road, sustained serious injuries and was whisked away by a boda boda rider to a medical facility in Mukono, saving him from being lynched by an angry mob.

Such risky operations risk lives of fishermen, communities around them, and law enforcement teams; yet, for instance in Namayingo District in eastern Uganda, government has used Mulwandha small-scale irrigation scheme as a magic bullet to uplift illegal fishermen's l...