
“Our leader Kizza Besigye remains admitted at a private clinic in Bugolobi. The clinic is surrounded by military, police & Prisons. Photo is the Ambulance that delivered Besigye at the Clinic. PRAY FOR BESIGYE to pull through. Mr. Museveni & his son Muhoozi want to silence KB” (Roland Muhinda, 16.02.2025).
“I have spoken to medic at a private clinic where our leader was admitted this evening. The medic told me Besigye is ‘physically weak’ and his condition is ‘worrying and unstable’. He said their duty is to stabilise him to the best of their abilities. ‘The rest we leave to God’!” (Roland Muhinda, 16.02.2025).
The latest news regarding Dr. Kizza Besigye is horrific. It is damaging my calm. The knowledge that his in critical condition and is in life danger. All after the prolonged detention in Luzira Maximum Prison and having a case pending at the Makindye General Court Martial, which has kept him detained and where they have made-up charges to keep there as a civilian. Therefore, the recent news is devastating.
Besigye life is on the line. There is nothing to shadow this or such. A body that is fatigued and in dire need of medical treatment. Some of us has called for it for a while now. Nevertheless, the authorities, the Prison Services and whatnot hasn’t done that for him as a prisoner. This is the utter failure of the state and they have caused him this harm under their watch. They followed him and saw how he was frail. The state knew he was getting weaker and losing energy. Still, they kept him there and let him lose his bodily functions.
This is all on the watch of the state. It just shows what sort of character the state is operating under. This is how it values life and what sort of treatment that is acceptable behind bars. They are accepting and validating this sort of treatment of prisoners. Besigye have been allowed to be treated in this manner and it became life threatening. That’s when they acted in haste and not before he was losing it.
It is just despicable… and disgraceful. This is what the state did to one of its own. It is a sign of how the state values their own and what it is willing to do to them. Besigye has been a voice of reason, a freedom fighter and a man of an unfinished revolution. That’s why people look up to him and his known for his resilience. Nevertheless, his body is fragile and ageing too. His not a young one anymore, but an ageing man. A man who cannot manage as much as he could when he was younger. Therefore, this whole situation is damaging him and the system surrounding him.
That he was just moved to a “The Clinic” in Bugolobi from Luzira with a heavy security deployment. It only shows how the state uses its resources and how it is has no humane treatment of its prisoners. When they are letting someone like Besigye get more and more sick. They must have seen it for days on end and now when it goes really bad. They suddenly moves and hope they can patch the hurt.
I am worried and so are many others. It hurts to write this. It really do. Besigye is a hero and a man of his words. This is just showing what the junta does to its citizens. This is who the NRM is and what it does to their foes. It shouldn’t be like this, but this is on their watch. Peace.













