Besigye To Drag Police To Court

SOURCE: THE RED PEPPER, 21 JANUARY 2012

Wafula Oguttu pleads with a cop not to tear his white t-shirt during arrest

Forum for Democratic Party president Col. Kizza Besigye has vowed to drag Uganda Police to the Constitutional Court seeking clarification on Article 24 of the constitution which he says the force is exploiting to persecute the opposition.

Besigye said this during a press briefing at the offices of Inter party cooperation (IPC) along Katonga Road. This follows the humiliating arrests of several top opposition politicians including Ingrid Turinawe, Mayor Erias Lukwago, Semujju Nganda, Wafula Ogutu among others yesterday as they headed to Katwe to a rally to relaunch the much dreaded walk to work riots. The IPC officials were not charged.

The hoarse voiced politician said police is harassing them in the name of preventive arrest.  Activists for change (A4C) a so called pressure group under the IPC is meant to hold rallies tomorrow at Kireka as they gear up for a relaunch of their walk to work protests next week.

As it is, it will not be a walk over after Kampala Metropolitan Police director, Andrew Kaweesi yesterday said they are deploying 10,000 cops to handle any disturbances.