Revealed! Why Uganda Police hate being assigned to try and stop Dr Besigye from leaving his house
Forum for Democratic Change
(FDC) flagbearer and presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye this week
shocked Ugandan police when he secretly left his house where he’s being
kept virtually under house arrest and made a surprise appearance in
Bugiri and Tororo towns, 153.2 kilometres and 214.2 kilometres
respectively east of the capital Kampala to address his supporters.
A combined and joint operations of all
Ugandan security agencies had been placed to keep a tab on the FDC
leader who is also a former personal physician to Ugandan President
Yoweri Museveni in an attempt to deter him from moving out of his
Kasangati residence, 12.6 kilo metre north of Kampala. The law
enforcement agencies seem to have forgotten that Dr Besigye was still
aware of his commando-like skills that he often used in his then
Bugoloobi residence in 2001 where he kept leaving the place without the
notice of his guards, including his own wife Winnie who often thought he
was listening to music on a radio he had covertly installed in his
private study room. “The hardest assignment one can get is to be tasked
with keeping a watchful eye on Dr Besigye. The way he sneaks out, he
makes the entire system of our intelligence a mockery of our shadows,”
quipped a security operative working for the State.
He added: “That monster [Besigye] is a
thorn in the fresh. He can accurately tell the underpants of Museveni
each day for all the 365 days of the year without a single miss.” The
agent was wondering how Dr Besigye stealthily managed to get out of his
Kasangati house and embark on a 195 kilometres long journey to the
eastern region of the country unnoticed. The agent said there was a
belief Besigye was not moving alone, that he possibly has some magic
power and that it is the reason why he is ‘one of the most feared
creatures in State House’. On many occasions, Besigye has been sneaking
out whilst security agencies are stationed all around his home, only to
be informed of his absence after he’s already reached his destination.
Early this week Dr Besigye, 56,
stealthily managed to elude the 24-hour-security surveillance including
the plainclothes agents stationed around his home and employed to trail
him and ended up in Tororo and Bugiri where he was met by a mammoth
crowd of his supporters. Not even the heavily armed security agents
could stop the mammoth crowd to access, welcome, shake hands and deliver
boxes of donations containing huge sums of money to him for what they
termed ‘liberation purposes’. Whilst Mr Museveni carries huge sacks of
money for enticing and bribing people to attend his rallies and to
listen to his miracle achievement claims, for Dr Besigye, people
willingly carried boxes to fundraise and make some donations toward the’
liberation’. “Thank you, thank you people of Tororo,” Dr Besigye told
the big gathering, which exploded into a sudden-two- minutes long
applause. “Thank you. Today, you have shown me that Uganda has owners,”
said Besigye in reference to the ‘ current official’ perceived view that
Museveni owns the country and its natural resources.
