Dr Kiiza Besigye asserted that he would expire in the struggle that he launched to unseat a sitting government led by his former bush war patient, Gen Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Consequently, arresting and imprisoning him will likely not stop him from conducting his political mission.
Presumably, only and only death can separate the seriously ailing Dr. Besigye from the above-mentioned mission. Consider Mzee Jaberi Bidandi, Eriya Kategeya and Miria Mutembe previously asked Dr Besigye to stand down and wait for another election.
Think. Dr Besigye told off Bidandi’s delegation and told them to go back and tell President Yoweri Museveni that he was not interested in power and just interested in getting him out of power. Practically speaking, such a kind of a very determined man is certainly not an easy one to stop from his set mission.
Now, signs have unfolded, painting a government in panic. This view, over it’s purported failure to secure incriminating evidence against the seriously and chained Dr Besigye. He is currently held on a set of very serious criminal charges related to treason and misprision of treason.
Dr Besigye, who was expected to contest for power with Gen. Yoweri Museveni in a nation’s looming election, was kidnapped from Kenya, parading him before a court martial. Government, per a constitutional court ruling delivered in a petition filed by an opposition politician, Michael Kabaziguruka, settled for a court martial since the commander-in-chief can purportedly bulldoze it and do as he wishes.
In fact, Dr Besigye terms the military courts in Uganda as allegedly being merely a walking stick of a nation’s leader, Gen Yoweri Museveni. Following the above-mentioned constitutional court ruling, the nation’s angry chief of defense forces, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba stepped out and told off judges.
Remarkably, Muhoozi declared that Gen. Yoweri Museveni, the nation’s commander-in-chief, who is also his father, was the one who was going to conclusively determine whether or not, Besigye was going to be tried by a military court. Notably, government through parliament later on reinstated the trial of civilians in military courts banned by the nation’s constitutional court.
But, the military has never taken Dr. Besigye back to the military courts. Relatedly, one of the top spies is under arrest having been rounded up recently over allegedly fabricating evidence based on to arrest Besigye. But the arrest looks like a gimmick. This stand, as intended to portray the top spy as a lier who misled the nation’s security, causing Dr Besigye’s debatebly an illegal arrest.
Allegedly, the State lacks incriminating evidence required to secure a conviction in a court of law against the Doctor. And therefore, the State is reportedly stranded with no serious evidence to present before court. Problematically, as the State continues to hold Besigye in prison without trial, the issue of granting him bail reportedly continues to split the judiciary.
Consequently, the judiciary can be compelled to release Besigye on bail to avoid being negatively viewed as a Temple of Injustice. Despite having leaked an alleged audio of an alleged Dr Besigye, asking for arms to use, to potentially overthrow an elected government. The State has for the last nine months since his kidnap from Kenya, failed to table before court such a kind of a fantastic evidence.
Instead, the State has since kept him on remand with the nation’s judiciary’s assumed assistance, who rejected to grant him bail even as he had met all the conditions required to be granted the same. Previously, Besigye won all the criminal cases government initiated against him even as he prevailed without having defended himself on all those occasions.
Consequently, history is not on the side of government but Dr. Besigye’s brand of defiance certainly keeps government in panic. But, holding an opposition politician endlessly without trial is certainly not a good piece of PR for a government in power. Finally, Gen Museveni could be devising means of releasing Dr. Besigye but after arranging with the Country’s judiciary how better to tame his defiance campaign.
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