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Monday 18 April 2016
When opposition politicians surrender the dictatorship to God: Besigye urges supporters to believe in God of defiance
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LUBOWA
By SOLOMON ARINAITWE & EBBER ATURINDE
Posted
Wednesday, April 13
2016 at
01:10
In Summary
Testimony. The Opposition activist notes that it was God who guided them through the Bush war as they fought for justice
KAMPALA.
At his debut prayer service following a 47-day
virtual confinement, Opposition leader Kizza Besigye yesterday said the
Bush war that ushered President Museveni’s government into power was
largely aided by God and rallied his supporters to believe in a “God of
defiance”.
Dr Besigye, who police allowed to leave his
Kasangati home yesterday, but trailed him and forced him to use
alternative routes, recounted the problems that conspired to frustrate
the war ranging from the 1983 UNLA’s Maj Gen Oyite-Ojok led offensive to
severe drought and the aborted attack on Kabamba barracks.
“If it was not for God, all of us, including Mr
Museveni, would not have come from the bush. It was not because of
Ssabalwayanyi [Museveni] that we who won the war, it was because of God.
Some people were rather spiteful of this idea of prayer but the first
testimony I am going to give is that our God is God of defiance. He
defies injustice and he stands with all those who seek justice,” he
said.
Mr Geoffrey Tayebwa, the Kampala south deputy regional police commander (2nd R), with other plain-clothed security operatives.
Though the party was holding the prayers for the
fourth week, it was the first time Dr Besigye was allowed to access the
FDC headquarters in Najjanankumbi since he was picked up from there as
the party prepared to address the media on what they said was a
results-manipulating racket on February 20.
On his first attempt to participate in the party’s
weekly Tuesday prayers last week, Dr Besigye was arrested at Mulago
roundabout and held for the entire night after disagreeing with police
on routes to access the city.
Throughout the enforced routes that he used
yesterday, Dr Besigye was trailed by tinted unmarked vans while
plain-clothed operatives sprayed teargas on unsuspecting road users and
warning onlookers not to applaud the Opposition leader.
Yesterday, Dr Besigye told the party supporters
that although God may be sympathetic to the anti-Museveni struggle,
Ugandans must also take the initiative.
One the plain-clothed security operatives who beat up and pepper sprayed
some road users as they trailed Kizza Besigye yesterday.
“Let those who are evil fight the people who are
praying. With God, we will not fail. But that is not to say we should
sit and do nothing because God helps those who help themselves. Our
country is in captivity by those who are wielding the power of the gun,”
Dr Besigye said.
Buoyed by the harsh criticism of the election by the US, Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago rallied the international community.
“They have a duty of helping in dismantling the dictatorship which they contributed in building,” he said.
The prayers
The ‘Free My vote’
campaign was unveiled to protest the Electoral Commission’s results
that indicated that Dr Besigye polled 35 per cent of the valid votes. It
envisaged forcing an international audit of the disputed results. “We
serve a God of justice. The Bible says those who exalt themselves will
be brought down low and will perish. I am sure that with the passing of
time, we will see it ourselves,” party boss Mugisha Muntu said.
The Kampala Metropolitan Police
commander, Abbas Byakagaba, has disowned goons who were draped in black
T-shirts with masked faces, wielding recoiling whips that they used to
beat up supporters of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)’s Col Dr Kizza
Besigye.
Byakagaba says police will investigate
and take action against its officers who looked on as strange men
unleashed terror on citizens. His statement should embarrass Byakagaba!
Does he realize how incompetent he sounds with such a statement?
The constitutional duty of the Uganda
Police Force (UPF) is to protect people’s lives and property. In this
particular incident, the police officers who were equipped with guns and
other tools meant to subdue and control crowds looked on as these men
beat up people as if they were approving their actions.
Masked men beating up people on Tuesday
In the past, police officers in similar
circumstances have looked as the so-called Kiboko squad bashed
demonstrators on Kampala streets. Again, in the beginning, police,
including their leader, General Kale Kayihura, disowned this group but
could not explain why they were not arrested as they beat up people.
Later, President Museveni owned up, and
introduced the squad as peace volunteers. The question is, is police in
charge of the security of this country anymore? In the past, they have
been arresting members of outlawed groups such as Kifeesi, Power Ten,
and many other groups that had come up to counter the police-backed
crime preventers.
Police is being dishonest in this matter
because how on earth can a stranger beat up people in full view of the
security agents, and police does not react? If everyone in this country
is allowed to take over the security of their life and property, would
it be a country governed by rule of law?
Is the police so weak and ill-equipped
as to fail to control the crowds – in that they have to rely on the
support of illegal outfits such as these masked men?
The action of these men could suggest
that actually police is not able to maintain law and order, and such a
duty has now been delegated to illegal organisations.
During the elections, police arrested
people who were involved in the beating up of President Museveni’s
supporters in Ntungamo district. The police chief even offered the
police helicopters to fly them to hospitals.
A Shs 20m bounty was placed on former
head of candidate Amama Mbabazi security, Christopher Aine, for whoever
would arrest him because of his alleged involvement in the Ntungamo
fights.
We only hope that the gusto and spirit
with which they hunted down those involved in Ntungamo fights would be
the same or even more while hunting down the masked men. We need to end
impunity, and police needs to own up.
