Ugandas official opposition leader Dr Kizza besigye is a troubled ma after he was barred from boarding a plane at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to return home.
According to Anne Mugisha, a leading official in Dr Besigye's party, "Ugandan state security told Kenya Airways that if Besigye was on board they would not be given landing rights." The claims have since been denied by the Ugandan government. Internal Affairs Minister Kirunda Kivejinja told the Daily Monitor newspaper in Kampala hat "If we managed to allow him to leave, how we can stop him from coming back? We had all the powers to stop him from going there after all; Uganda doesn't have any authority on Kenya Airways flights." Dr Besigye remained stranded at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport's VIP lounge for the better part of the day where he demanded a written explanation from the airline and Ugandan authorities. Relief came after KQ confirmed that the leader will fly home at 5pm, Wednesday.
Dr Besigye is expected to lead protests planned to coincide with President Yoweri Museveni’s swearing in for a fifth term on Thursday. He said the protest will shift from "walk-to-work" to "walk-to-pray”. The walk-to-work demonstrations kicked off in April 11 over high food and fuel prices. Several people have since been killed, and others injured by security agents who are accustomed to breaking up the marches violently. The opposition leader has been in Nairobi since April 29th to seek specialized treatment after he was assaulted by Uganda’s state security forces in a series of "walk to work" protests
Dr Besigye is a former ally of President Museveni who still echoes that the February election was rigged, views supported by international observers from the African Union, European Union and the Commonwealth and that president Museveni is way out of order to spend USh4 billion on hi swearing in ceremony when millions of Ugandans risked starving.
Still in Uganda political front, opposition politicians were yesterday sprayed with a coloured liquid by the blue water cannon truck as police blocked them from walking to the Constitutional Square in Kampala where they had planned to hold a rally. they included UPC president, Olara Otunnu and Samuel Lubega, an independent presidential candidate in the just concluded elections. The coloured water cannons came in after the police who had dogs blocking failed. Mao and Mayanja were afterwards arrested and whisked away in a Police van.
I don’t know how the events in Uganda will unfold but seemingly its turning out to be nasty than expected. From claims that Museveni rigged the elections to “walk to work” protests which will switch and become “walk to pray” protests to Besigye being stranded in Kenya and finally to protests from other opposition leaders, it is pretty obvious that the longtime Ugandan leader is already in trouble yet the official authorization of his stay in office is due.will museveni make it through this time round or will he be a fallout casualty just like his predecessor Idi Amin
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