Besigye to launch campaign in Busoga
Dec 30, 2005
DETAINED Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye yesterday said he would hit the campaign trail from Busoga immediately he is released on Monday.
By Patrick Jaramogi
DETAINED Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye yesterday said he would hit the campaign trail from Busoga immediately he is released on Monday.
Delivering his New Year message to his presidential envoy Beti Kamya inside Luzira Upper Maximum Prison yesterday, the jovial colonel said, “The end of Museveni’s dictatorship is near. I will be free on Monday and will start serious campaigns immediately I am set free. I have already worn my sports gear.â€
The High Court rules on Monday whether Besigye’s detention is lawful.
Besigye had wanted the State to explain why he was still in jail yet the High court granted him bail and the military Court Martial’s detention warrant had already expired.
Justice John Bosco Katutsi said he would give his ruling on Monday.
Besigye said he was energised by the enormous support and messages he had received from people while in prison.
“I am here but I am happy, I am energised. I am thinking, I am planning and strategising the next move. My message to all my supporters is that the time is now for change. Be strong and don’t lose hope,†he said.
Besigye told Kamya that he was very concerned that the courts were still closed to the public.
“The courts should be independent and accessible to the public but whenever I am taken to court, all roads are barricaded. This is not the independency the judiciary deserves,†he said.
He wondered why he was treated as a special case unlike other prisoners.
“Why is it only me treated like this, as a special case and not others?†he mused.
He appealed to the media to continue highlighting the hijacking of the courts by state agents.
He said, as Kamya wound up her visit at 10:28am, “What I am going through is what all revolutionaries and great men like Kwame Nkrumah went through. The battle against dictatorship is near. Whether legally or politically, I will win.â€
Shortly after, Winnie Byanyima, her son Anselem and an unidentified girl entered Besigye’s room.
Dressed in jumpers, a polo T-shirt and brown sandals, Anselm held a New Year greeting card wrapped in a yellow envelop. ‘This is a message for daddy. It’s his New Year message from me,†he said as Byanyima held his hand. The mood at the prison was high as Kamya came out, with many people scrambling for Besigye’s posters.
The wall leading to the prisons main gate was all pasted “blue†with Besigye’s posters.
DETAINED Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye yesterday said he would hit the campaign trail from Busoga immediately he is released on Monday.
Delivering his New Year message to his presidential envoy Beti Kamya inside Luzira Upper Maximum Prison yesterday, the jovial colonel said, “The end of Museveni’s dictatorship is near. I will be free on Monday and will start serious campaigns immediately I am set free. I have already worn my sports gear.â€
The High Court rules on Monday whether Besigye’s detention is lawful.
Besigye had wanted the State to explain why he was still in jail yet the High court granted him bail and the military Court Martial’s detention warrant had already expired.
Justice John Bosco Katutsi said he would give his ruling on Monday.
Besigye said he was energised by the enormous support and messages he had received from people while in prison.
“I am here but I am happy, I am energised. I am thinking, I am planning and strategising the next move. My message to all my supporters is that the time is now for change. Be strong and don’t lose hope,†he said.
Besigye told Kamya that he was very concerned that the courts were still closed to the public.
“The courts should be independent and accessible to the public but whenever I am taken to court, all roads are barricaded. This is not the independency the judiciary deserves,†he said.
He wondered why he was treated as a special case unlike other prisoners.
“Why is it only me treated like this, as a special case and not others?†he mused.
He appealed to the media to continue highlighting the hijacking of the courts by state agents.
He said, as Kamya wound up her visit at 10:28am, “What I am going through is what all revolutionaries and great men like Kwame Nkrumah went through. The battle against dictatorship is near. Whether legally or politically, I will win.â€
Shortly after, Winnie Byanyima, her son Anselem and an unidentified girl entered Besigye’s room.
Dressed in jumpers, a polo T-shirt and brown sandals, Anselm held a New Year greeting card wrapped in a yellow envelop. ‘This is a message for daddy. It’s his New Year message from me,†he said as Byanyima held his hand. The mood at the prison was high as Kamya came out, with many people scrambling for Besigye’s posters.
The wall leading to the prisons main gate was all pasted “blue†with Besigye’s posters.