Col. Kizza Besigye faces sh50m fine
Apr 28, 2011
FDC party president Col. Kizza Besigye has been granted bail and cautioned against demonstrating or engaging in activities that would breach peace.
By Edward Anyoli
and Frederick Kiwanuka
FDC party president Col. Kizza Besigye has been granted bail and cautioned against demonstrating or engaging in activities that would breach peace.
Nabweru Court Chief Magistrate Justine Atukwasa, sitting at the Nakasongola Chief Magistrates’ Court, granted Besigye bail.
She told him that he would pay sh50m if he engaged in unlawful activities in the next seven months.
However, minutes after leaving the courtroom, Besigye told journalists that he intended to continue demonstrating.
He said he would meet with other “activists for change†to plan more walk-to-work demonstrations.
Besigye, who was led to court by prison warders, personally applied for bail because his lawyers were absent.
He was granted bail and bonded at sh10m (not cash).
His two sureties, Chapaa Karuhanga and Joseph Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogerere, were both bonded at sh50m, also not cash.
Kampala businessmen Francis Tumwijukye, Harold Kaija and Jethro Nuwagaba, Besigye’s co-accused, were also granted bail.
Lino Anguzu and Gladys Nyanzi, who led the prosecution, did not oppose the bail applications, but asked court to impose stringent terms to deter the four from acts that would cause violence.
Earlier, Besigye who was clad in a blue Kitenge shirt, a grey pair of trousers and black shoes, had been charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly.
He allegedly committed the offence on April 21. He, however, denied the offence.
He is expected to reappear at the Nabweru Magistrates’ Court on May 13.
Security was tight at the court premises by both the Police and the army.
Besigye was taken to Nakasongola last week after he was arrested on April 21.
A few kilometres from Kampala, there was heavy deployment of traffic Police officers, checking every vehicle that was coming to the city.
Besigye left court in a convoy with his supporters shortly after signing his bond papers.
Several FDC members were present at the court.
and Frederick Kiwanuka
FDC party president Col. Kizza Besigye has been granted bail and cautioned against demonstrating or engaging in activities that would breach peace.
Nabweru Court Chief Magistrate Justine Atukwasa, sitting at the Nakasongola Chief Magistrates’ Court, granted Besigye bail.
She told him that he would pay sh50m if he engaged in unlawful activities in the next seven months.
However, minutes after leaving the courtroom, Besigye told journalists that he intended to continue demonstrating.
He said he would meet with other “activists for change†to plan more walk-to-work demonstrations.
Besigye, who was led to court by prison warders, personally applied for bail because his lawyers were absent.
He was granted bail and bonded at sh10m (not cash).
His two sureties, Chapaa Karuhanga and Joseph Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogerere, were both bonded at sh50m, also not cash.
Kampala businessmen Francis Tumwijukye, Harold Kaija and Jethro Nuwagaba, Besigye’s co-accused, were also granted bail.
Lino Anguzu and Gladys Nyanzi, who led the prosecution, did not oppose the bail applications, but asked court to impose stringent terms to deter the four from acts that would cause violence.
Earlier, Besigye who was clad in a blue Kitenge shirt, a grey pair of trousers and black shoes, had been charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly.
He allegedly committed the offence on April 21. He, however, denied the offence.
He is expected to reappear at the Nabweru Magistrates’ Court on May 13.
Security was tight at the court premises by both the Police and the army.
Besigye was taken to Nakasongola last week after he was arrested on April 21.
A few kilometres from Kampala, there was heavy deployment of traffic Police officers, checking every vehicle that was coming to the city.
Besigye left court in a convoy with his supporters shortly after signing his bond papers.
Several FDC members were present at the court.