Uganda, March 6 -- Commissioner general of prisons Dr Johnson Byabashaija has informed legislators on the parliamentary human rights committee that the prisons services fully agree with President Museveni's recent proposal to relocate Luzira prison.

"The relocation of Luzira [prison] is something we would have done 20 years ago, because when they started building Luzira in 1921, it was outside Kampala but now it is in the middle of the city, industries are surrounding it and no longer a max prison," Dr Byabashaija told MPs on Tuesday.

"In 2008, we reviewed our own security arrangements [and] as prisons we wrote our relocation concept. We even engaged a contractor from Dubai and even signed a MoU, but I don't know what happened. So, this...