Former presidential candidate Dr. Kizza Besigye has today vowed to support Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu’s consultative meetings that aim at sensitizing and mobilizing masses against the current regime.
Last week Gen. Muntu’s consultation meetings were declared to be illegal and against party motives by party leaders however on Sunday he defied party orders and held his first consultation meetings in Hoima.
He implored both FDC and his supports to resist the temptation of being obsessed with president Museveni’s regime and promised to galvanize country around protests, civil disobedience and boycotts as a tool of weakening regime.
In a media briefing held in Mbarara today, Dr. Besigye said as long as anybody wants to do an activity that brings the dictatorship down, ‘’that person is our ally and if someone is doing an activity that is not helpful to bringing the dictator down, then we shall oppose him’’.
He vehemently said that every Ugandan is free to carry out consultative meetings and he has no problem with it.
However FDC party president Patrick Amuriat acknowledged that he and the party are not aware of Muntu’s consultations, he however, pledged to have a conversation with him for a common goal of winning the top most seat.
Dr. Besgye, FDC party president Patrick Amuriat, FDC mobiliser Igrid Tulinawe, Kawempe South MP Mubarak Munyagwa among other FDC leaders had appeared before court in Mbarara over murder charges, inciting violence and occasioning malicious damage of police vehicle.
The matter was however adjourned to March 6, 2017 by the sitting Magistrate Daphne Ayebare following an official leave that was granted by Magistrate Ssanyu Mukasa.
I support Gen. Muntu on consultative meetings-Besigye
