Besigye tours Butambala county

Jul 29, 2007

FORUM for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Dr. Kizza Besigye on Saturday toured Butambala county in Mpigi district to launch the sale of FDC party cards.

By Cyprian Musoke

FORUM for Democratic Change (FDC) leader Dr. Kizza Besigye on Saturday toured Butambala county in Mpigi district to launch the sale of FDC party cards.

In spite of a truck with policemen being sighted during a stop-over in Mpigi, his journey was not impeded by the Police or any other authorities.

Besigye told his supporters in Butambala that he would fight on to remove the Government, despite the fact that he failed in 2001 and 2006. “Even if it takes five years, or twenty years, we will fight to remove the system,” he vowed.

A dictator’s tool, he said, was intimidation: “If you fear and find a scarecrow, when you bend, it bends, when you gesture, it gestures. You will get afraid and run. But when you take a closer look, you’ll find only bisanja (dry banana leaves). So when you see teargas trucks and truckloads of policemen, defy them and he (President Museveni) will go.”

As the opposition, they were not fighting the person of Museveni but a system that no longer cared for Ugandans, he stressed.

“We are not fighting NRM or Museveni, but bad methods of work that remove liberty from the people.”

He said Uganda was a rich country but its factories, bus companies, national airlines and railways had all been sold.

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