Four-time challenger of President Museveni, Dr Kizza Besigye has described his arrest at Entebbe International Airport moments after he landed from a month trip overseas as ‘inhumane’.
The opposition leader has been abroad for a month and was arrested at around at 8:15am and whisked away in a waiting vehicle escorted him to his home in Kasangati.
“Goons waited for me at the steps of the plane putting on Civil Aviation Authority uniforms,” Dr Besigye told the press at his home Monday afternoon adding that, “Passengers on the plane must have thought I was a terrorist bse of the way I was handled.”
“Up to now I don’t have my luggage bse I didn’t go through immigration and not even my passport was stamped.
I was whisked away to the Old Airport where I was transferred from a CAA car into a police car,” Besigye bemoaned.
Police spokesperson, Mr Andrew Kaweesi said Dr Besigye was arrested as a preventive measure but Kampala City lord mayor Erias Lukwago said the FDC strongman was arrested unlawfully and whisked away like a criminal which he is not.
“Those who were unable to see me today have a chance tomorrow when I report at High court,” Dr Besigye said.
While abroad, Besigye met Ugandans living in the United Kingdom and North America to rally them into supporting his move to unseat President Yoweri Museveni.
Dr Besigye, a former personal doctor to President Museveni during the 1981-86 Bush War, in August asked court to discontinue the treason case against him, saying the state was abusing the court process to hold him on trumped up charges.
Prosecution states that Dr Besigye and others still at large between February 20 and May 11 formed, with an intention to compel by force the government of Uganda to change its measures or counsel as to the lawfully established methods of acceding to the office of president.
