Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)/People’s Front for Freedom (PFF): New Year (2025) Message delivered by Erias Lukwago (06.01.2025)

Uganda Law Society (ULS): Let’s fight corruption, not human rights (01.01.2025)

Dr. Kizza Besigye’s Christmas Message (23.12.2024)

Besigye behind bars for 52 days [on the 7th of January 2025] without proper trial as a civilian…

“Dr. Kizza Besigye and Hajj Obed Lutale have been remanded to Luzira Prison until Jan 7, 2025. This follows a delay in constituting their defence team after lead counsel Martha Karua was denied a practicing license by the Uganda Law Council” (Nexus Media, 11.12.2024).

You know the Makindye Military Court and the authorities have targeted the opposition leader and activist Dr. Kizza Besigye, as they kidnapped and apprehended him in Nairobi, Kenya. Yesterday it was official that he will go 52 days without a proper trial or produced in court. As a civilian tested and tried in a Court Martial.

Meanwhile, we aren’t hearing about witnesses, production of evidence or any proof of the alleged crimes or conspiracy to do so. No, the state is just busy blocking the representation of Besigye in the Court. Also, they are just remanding it and not actually doing it. The typical act of the courts under this Museveni era.

They are deferring cases, keeping them remanded for ages and never ever delivering anything sincere in the Courts. That is what is going on here, as the political gambit and works are reflected in it all. As the lawyers are barred from entering and such. This case just shows how the President is having a hold on every entity of the state.

Dr. Kizza Besigye is captured, apprehended and charged because of who he is, and the state manufactures criminal conspiracy easily. We have seen how many times they claim the opposition plans to blow up gas-stations and create riots in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Region. That happens so often…

So, to believe the charges on the questionable gun-charges on him. Shows how the state works and elaborately tarnish any open dissent. Besigye is the nemesis that never left the realm of the state. A man who is vocal and has the ability to be relevant because of his message. A message the state wants to silence and doesn’t want people to react too. Therefore, it is so easy to make up a criminal prosecution and go after him.

We know this is made up charges and the misuse of power of the authorities. They are doing this because of the paranoia of the State House. The President cannot get over the enemy or his way of operating. This is why the President uses the Court Martial to prove his power. Alas, it shows how weak he is too. Because he has no validity or sincerity using it.

Besigye is a victim of his popularity and his way of manoeuvring. If Besigye was more silent and in the dark. He wouldn’t be touched, but since his in the spotlight and daring the state. That’s why they pick on him and pin him with crimes. Therefore, we are seeing it happening yet again. To a man that deserves better.

When he returns to the Court Martial over the new year’s…. He will be in custody for 52 days and counting. That just shows the impunity and misuse of law enforcement against a civilian. Besigye is a victim and should have his freedom. The guns and the allegations will be squashed, because they are fiction. Fiction deserves to be in books and not in Court documents. Peace.

Law Society of Kenya (LSK): Statement on the Law Society on the Decision of the Law Council of Uganda on Hon. Martha Karua, SC. (10.12.2024)

Joint Statement on the Abduction of Dr. Kizza Besigye and Hajj. Obeid Kamulegeya from Kenya and their Arraignment before the General Court Martial (09.12.2024)

Opinion: The Besigye case is an indictment of the Museveni era

“The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has issued a production warrant directing the Uganda Prisons Services to produce Retired Col Dr Kizza Besigye to continue with the trial  in which he is accused of  inciting violence” (Uganda Radio Network, 05.12.2024).

The recent case of abduction, subsequent arrest and detention of Dr. Kizza Besigye is just a proof of how the oppression of the Republic works. Besigye is just a live manifestation of how they work. This isn’t new, but sadly how the National Resistance Movement (NRM) uses their authority, monopoly of violence and silence its critics.

Dr. Kizza Besigye was kidnapped and abducted from Nairobi, Kenya, as he was a visitor and a man who planned to participate in a book-launch of an opposition leader there. That was thwarted and stopped. He couldn’t take a part of that and was later revealed to be in custody and to be produced to the Makindye Military Court. A civilian tried in a Court Martial.

As the case itself is questionable at best, as it is as manufactured as can be. Since the man was supposed to carry UPDF monopolized pistols and ammunition. Meanwhile also having the time to schedule and incite violence in Uganda. Therefore, the authorities and the criminal prosecution have to prove these alleged crimes and come fourth with evidence of both. Alas, that will take forever, and we know they are “pending it all”.

This case will be stalled and be pushed back. That is custom and ordinary practice. As the criminals and the supposed felons are captured before the deed. Neither is their witnesses, or any proof provide to the courts. Neither if they are civilian nor a military one. No, these things are prolonged and the agony never ending. They can push it for months and years before any sort of arrangement is put forward and the loss of interest in the case dies. That’s when the supposed felon is allowed to enter society again on bail. Meanwhile have to come to scheduled hearings and trials, but they will not address the matter either. Therefore, we know the drill here.

Nothing new under the sun. Nothing new at all. The NRM and the authorities can act a fool. They can take everyone for idiots and think we are all naïve. Alas, that isn’t the case. We know why they are doing it and stifling Besigye from operating as a civilian yet again. That’s what they are up too and hoping to stop him in his tracks.

However, this is just creating the same issue all over again. Doing the same bidding and creating same sort of fallacy. Which will only cause more havoc and pain. The suffering and the impunity against one man. They have pinned hundreds of charges on Besigye in the past and nothing has sticked. That’s because it is manufactured and used as a tool to silence the man. This the zero-sum game the state has and it’s obvious. Peace.

Uganda Law Society (ULS): Radical New Bar – An Open Letter to the Chief Justice (28.11.2024)

Uganda Law Society (ULS): Statement Condemning the Rendition and Subsequent Prosecution of Dr. Kizza Besigye & 36 Others (22.11.2024)

Nkunyingi Muwanda MP: Statement on the Arrest and Repariation of Uganda Nationas from Kenya including Rt. Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye (20.11.2024)