I was charged with an old treason case - Nakawa MP

Kampala. Nakawa Member of Parliament Michael Kabaziguruka has said the new treason charges against him in the General Court Martial are an old case of 2012 which has never been concluded.
“The treason case that Museveni refers to is of 2012. He has not come to court to produce evidence,” he told a section of his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party leaders who visited him at Kigo prison on Thursday afternoon.
Mr Kabaziguruka said he was released on bail and had been reporting to court as required until government presented fresh treason charges of the same old case.
Earlier this month, President Museveni, while meeting Inter-party organisation for dialogue (IPOD), allegedly said Kabaziguruka tried but failed to kill him at his farm in Kisozi. Museveni also alleged that Besigye and Gen David Sejusa wanted to distabilise Uganda.
Mr Kabaziguruka told the FDC leaders at Kigo that he is the one who requested the prison officials not to take him to the General Court Martial in Makindye on Tuesday.

“I was sick and I requested not to be taken to court,” said a seemingly healthy, tidy and jovial Kabaziguruka, donning the yellow prison uniform. “I finished medication yesterday (Wednesday). I am always on and off but you can see now I am a bit fine,” he added.
Before appearing in the court martial in June, Mr Kabaziguruka said he assumed he would be tried in a civilian court.
“I have never applied to join the army. I challenged the court martial trial in the High Court because I am not a soldier,” he said. Of the 23 suspects he is charged with, he said he knows only two suspects who were part of his 2012 treason case.
“I know only two suspects of the people I am being charged with. I don’t know other suspects,” Kabaziguruka said.

On July 11, Kabaziguruka’s lawyers Rwakafuzi and Company Advocates petitioned the High Court seeking an order to quash the ongoing trial in the military court.
However, the High Court has not set the date for hearing of his petition.
Prosecution claims that between February and June this year, Kabazigurka, Mr Musa Lutwama and an Assistant Inspector of Police, Mr Obulejo Ferdinand and other 20 soldiers in Kampala, Wakiso and Luweero districts, plotted to overthrow the government by force of arms.

He accused the army court of working on orders of President Museveni and said he does not expect justice from the military.
He also said that after interrogation at Special Investigations Division in Kireka upon his arrest on June 8, he was driven at night to police headquarters in Naguru where he found Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura waiting for him. He said Kayihura questioned him about a plot by top politicians to destabilise the country.
“Kayihura told me that [Dr Kizza] Besigye, [Gen David] Sejusa and [Amama] Mbabazi wanted to destabilise Uganda. He asked me to tell him their plot,” Kabaziguruka told thye FDC leaders at Kigo.

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