
“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.












