The police yesterday stepped up its restrictions on opposition leader Kizza Besigyes movement around the city with the Force, saying the politician plans to cause chaos in town if he is allowed freedom to go wherever he pleases. Mr Patrick Onyango, the deputy police spokesman, said the Force had information that Dr Besigye was planning to cause chaos.
Today (Monday), he had planned to go to Owino Market to eat and cause chaos. The moment we get information that he is planning to cause chaos, we shall not allow him to move, Mr Onyango said.
Until recently, the police had relaxed deployment in the
neighbourhood of his Kasangati-based home after Dr Besigye left the country for a routine trip to the United States last month. Police patrol vehicles withdrew from his gate and near his home.
Yesterday, police stopped Dr Besigye from using selected routes in the city and its suburbs, and instead imposed upon him a road chart.
However, when Dr Besigye returned last week on Wednesday, he beat police surveillance the following day to enter the city centre. A combined military and police operation was marshalled to contain him.
In the ensuing chaos which broke out when security forces opened fire and lobbed tear gas around the busy downtown, at least two people were shot and several injured.
The former FDC leader was arrested and detained for a day, for what the police called inciting violence.
The following day, two patrol pick-up trucks escorted him to Case Clinic where he had gone to visit hospitalised city Mayor Erias Lukwago.
I have to go to my usual businesses. I have to go to the bank because last time they never allowed me to go there, Dr Besigye insisted.
But the police maintained that it will continue blocking Dr Besigye from accessing certain roads in the city if it gets intelligence information that he is likely to cause chaos.
After rejecting the 2011 poll results, insisting they were rigged, Dr Besigye said he would participate in protests against widespread corruption and bad governance under the aegis of a pressure group, Activists for Change.
Source: Monitor
Today (Monday), he had planned to go to Owino Market to eat and cause chaos. The moment we get information that he is planning to cause chaos, we shall not allow him to move, Mr Onyango said.
Until recently, the police had relaxed deployment in the
neighbourhood of his Kasangati-based home after Dr Besigye left the country for a routine trip to the United States last month. Police patrol vehicles withdrew from his gate and near his home.
Yesterday, police stopped Dr Besigye from using selected routes in the city and its suburbs, and instead imposed upon him a road chart.
However, when Dr Besigye returned last week on Wednesday, he beat police surveillance the following day to enter the city centre. A combined military and police operation was marshalled to contain him.
In the ensuing chaos which broke out when security forces opened fire and lobbed tear gas around the busy downtown, at least two people were shot and several injured.
The former FDC leader was arrested and detained for a day, for what the police called inciting violence.
The following day, two patrol pick-up trucks escorted him to Case Clinic where he had gone to visit hospitalised city Mayor Erias Lukwago.
I have to go to my usual businesses. I have to go to the bank because last time they never allowed me to go there, Dr Besigye insisted.
But the police maintained that it will continue blocking Dr Besigye from accessing certain roads in the city if it gets intelligence information that he is likely to cause chaos.
After rejecting the 2011 poll results, insisting they were rigged, Dr Besigye said he would participate in protests against widespread corruption and bad governance under the aegis of a pressure group, Activists for Change.
Source: Monitor