Gen Muntu speaks out on police brutality against Besigye
Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) founder and current national coordinator, Maj Gen (Rtd) Mugisha Muntu has condemned the brutal arrest of former president of Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Dr Kizza Besigye, describing it as a continuation of government's refusal to recognise the folly of limiting civic space in Uganda.
“Human beings will always seek to be free and any efforts against that ideal always fail.
These too will. Violence against those pointing to a problem does not take it away. No amount of tear gas or pepper spray will change our need for change. The Alliance for National Transformation stands with our brothers and sisters in FDC and everyone in the country pushing for change. We shall overcome,” Maj Gen (Rtd) Muntu tweeted on Tuesday.
Police on Monday smashed Dr Besigye’s car windscreen, lobbed teargas into his car and fired water cannons at the four-time presidential candidate subduing him with the powerful volleys of water explosions.
“The high pressured water from the truck was deliberately directed at FDC founding President Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye. The cannon threw Dr. Besigye against the roof of his vehicle and nearly tipped him off. It is his driver who held him by the legs,” the party spokesman, Mr Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda said in a statement on Tuesday.
Dr Besigye and other Opposition leaders of FDC, had planned to hold a seminar at Mandela National Stadium Namboole.
Police claimed the seminar was illegal on grounds that they had advised the organisers to shift venue.
