The windscreen of the vehicle belonging to Dr Kizza Besigye has been broken as police arrested him following the Force’s blocking of an FDC assembly at Namboole Stadium on Monday morning.
Dr Besigye was arrested for leading a procession of FDC supporters on their way to the party headquarters in Najjanankumbi after police blocked their national assembly at Namboole.
Party leaders were met by anti-riot police trucks as they sought to access the stadium for the meeting where the party spokesman was also to address the press at 11am.
When they were blocked, the party supporters, including Dr Besigye then started marching from Namboole heading towards town as they sought to go to the party headquarters
But police intercepted them and fired teargas, ordering Dr Besigye to get out of his car. When he refused, the cops smashed the windscreen of his car before pulling him out.
They took him to a waiting police vehicle and drove to an unknown destination.
Police has condemned FDC leaders for having defied the advice of postponing the meeting from Police as Mr. Onyango told the media in the press statement.
Meanwhile former opposition leader Winnie Kiiz has come out with a statement condemning police for the actio taken against Dr. KIIZA Besigye and other FDC leaders,” I must at this point re-echo the words of Martin Luther King Jr, “Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace”.
Whoever is behind must know that there are nefarious chain of consequences that happen after a violent act, those chains of anger and resentment that never end.
Let it be a lesson to all those perpetuating this violence that Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary. History proves this.
Sometimes a person or a group is violent to others and ends up getting what they want. However, as time goes on, they usually end up being victims of violence as well.
This inhumane treatment is not worth administering onto any Citizen of this Country.
Winnie Kiiza (MP)
Kasese District
