Uganda's cash-strapped cops spend $126 million on CCTV from Huawei

KAMPALA - A forest of slender white poles topped with dark, unblinking eyes is quietly sprouting on the rubbish-strewn, potholed street corners of the Ugandan capital.

Facial recognition technology has become increasingly pervasive around the world, raising concerns about potential abuses. Officials in San Francisco voted in May to ban its use by city personnel. Huawei rejected the Journal’s “unfounded and inaccurate allegations”, telling Reuters in an email: “Huawei’s code of business conduct prohibits any employees from undertaking any activities that would compromise the data or privacy of our customers or end users, or that would breach any laws.”

Huawei has repeatedly denied it is controlled by the Chinese government, military or intelligence services.Surging crime in Uganda is fuelling public anger towards President Yoweri Museveni, 74, who has been in power since 1986 and will likely seek another five-year term. The police website said in 2015 the force was 45,000-strong. That’s about half the United Nations-recommended ratio of one policeman per 500 citizens.

Uganda’s police are poorly paid and have little investigative training, said Herbert Karugaba, a Ugandan police investigator for 17 years before he joined the U.N. to probe genocide and war crimes in Rwanda and Cambodia. Police start on a monthly salary of about $150. Most prosecutors earn about $270. Lawmakers take home around $6,500.

cash-strapped😂😂😂😂, you guys are exactly, whats wrong with western Media, purely not researched work

Money well spent. It makes the cop's life easier.

I can feel your pain... Just because they gave business to China not America...

Yeah, but to be fair, that includes the $96 million sales commission.🍸

Niggas love shiny things while living in squalor

The problem is not Cash but Huawei😁

PaimeiGuy They call that 'embezzlement' of the Ugandan people.

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Hmm... spending like they may not be cash strapped.

So we shouldn't have CCTV because big Sam hasn't allocated us any Double standards

Biased comment when a China brand is mentioned. How about getting cctv from US? That means uncle Sam is watching too?

China now watching the streets of Uganda and influencing its police force bewarethedragon

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