{"id":29956,"date":"2016-11-02T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/they-provoked-me-besigye-explains-why-he-fought\/"},"modified":"2016-11-02T06:53:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T06:53:52","slug":"they-provoked-me-besigye-explains-why-he-fought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/they-provoked-me-besigye-explains-why-he-fought\/","title":{"rendered":"They provoked me: Besigye explains why he fought with police"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Opposition leader Kizza Besigye yesterday accused the police of provoking him into a fight when the force blocked a service provider from leaving his Kasangati home.}<\/p>\n

On Monday, Dr Besigye engaged police officers in a brawl, which ended in his and other activists\u2019 arrest. Police had blocked his visitors from accessing or leaving his home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had hired a tent in Kasangati, the owner came and picked it in the morning but when I went in the afternoon, he was still stuck there, they had stopped him from leaving the place, the other people had been stopped from coming,\u201d Dr Besigye said. He described as \u201ccriminal\u201d the police actions and vowed to fight such acts starting with the \u201cliberation of my home\u201d.<\/p>\n

The former presidential candidate explained that he had been forcefully removed from one prison [Kasangati home] to another [Naggalama Police cells] and again forcefully returned [to Kasangati home].<\/p>\n

Police, has since the run up to the February 2016 general polls, sieged Dr Besigye\u2019s home, only allowing him to leave at the force\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n

Dr Besigye, has however, beaten the police surveillance on numerous occasions only for police to find him in the Kampala City centre or in the country side.<\/p>\n

He has in the past sought and received a court decision stopping police from using his home to detain him.<\/p>\n

Police maintain that they are using a \u201ccontainment approach\u201d and \u201cpreventive arrest\u201d on the Opposition leader who has since called for an \u201caudit\u201d of the 2016 poll results and maintains the incumbent hold onto power is \u201cillegitimate\u201d.<\/p>\n

No case advanced
\nMeanwhile, Dr Besigye who reported at High Court yesterday as part of his bail conditions, decried the failure by the prosecution to advance a case against him in the high court almost six month since he was first charged terming it as persecution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no case committed to this court [High Court] to be tried, there is no case at all, all this is harassment without a case, I could have been in prison without any case. I don\u2019t know whether any case would ever be filed in this court..\u201d<\/p>\n

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{Opposition leader Kizza Besigye yesterday accused the police of provoking him into a fight when the force blocked a service provider from leaving his Kasangati home.} On Monday, Dr Besigye engaged police officers in a brawl, which ended in his and other activists\u2019 arrest. Police had blocked his visitors from accessing or leaving his home. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2481],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-monitor"],"bylines":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29956"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29956"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}