Police has blocked the former presidential candidate, Dr. Col Kizza Besigye from accessing Namboole stadium in Kampala where the main opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) was scheduled to hold its weekly press briefing.
The standoff follows Dr Kizza Besigye return from Geneva, Switzerland where he had gone to witness his wife Winnie Byanyima start her new role as new Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Besigye’s procession was blocked at Kireka on grounds that group did not seek clearance from the police as Public Order Management Act stipulates. During the procession, police arrested scores of FDC stalwarts and it hurled teargas among party members.
Earlier police tried to stop him from proceeding to venue however he insisted and drove off prompting police to deploy more officers to arrest the situation.
At Kireka, there was a standoff when he declined to leave his vehicle as ordered, a decision that prompted police to tow him in the vehicle.
