Court Dismisses Besigye ‘Walk to Work’ Charges

SOURCE: THE RED PEPPER, 9 AUGUST 2011

Besigye and co-accused inside Court in Kasangati on Tuesday

The Kasangati chief magistrate’s court on Tuesday dismissed all the work-to-work charges that Kizza Besigye has been facing.

Besigye has been facing three charges of disobeying lawful orders thus disrupting traffic flow, rioting after a proclamation by a police officer and inciting violence.

While delivering his ruling as to whether Besigye has a case to answer or not, George William Watyekere the kasangati grade 1 magistrate threw out all the charges on grounds that all the witnesses produced before court were untruthful and there testimonies had a lot of contradictions which he couldn’t over rule.

Prosecution led by Ivan Nkwasibwe and Gladys Nyanzi had produced three witnesses in court to pin Besigye.

These included Collins Mukitte who was the Kasangati police boss at the time Besigye arrested, Patrick Mawa a traffic officer and one Bernard Kirya.

The magistrate however trashed the evidence of Kirya since he testified that he never saw Besigye committing the offence but just executed his arrest a matter that wasn’t before court.

Meanwhile, Besigye says he is suing the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for always dragging him to court over offences that he can’t substantiate.

“The country is disgraced by that office, in all these cases the prosecution has never made any premafasie case right from the rape case” he said.