Kasangati Grade 1 Magistrate Egessa Achoka has granted former FDC presidential candidate Kizza Besigye after being accused by Police for allegedly disobeying lawful orders in particular the public order management Act.

“I’ve just secured bail from court. We shall defeat the official persecution policy of Mr M7 & Uganda Police,” Dr. Besigye tweeted.

Police told court the opposition kingpin had broken the law in regards to last week’s incident in which Dr Besigye was intercepted at the Mulago hospital roundabout on his way to the FDC party headquarters in Najjanankumbi to attend weekly protest prayers.

Non-cash bail has been granted with Ms Ingrid Turinawe and Mr. Tony Sempebwa, LC3 Nangabo as sureties.

Dr Besigye was on April 4 arrested by police on his first attempt to move freely after spending 47 days under house arrest following the controversial February 18 presidential polls.

Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga, said criminal summons had been served to Dr Besigye, on April 8 but he has since refused to append signature.

“We have footages showing that Dr Besigye stood atop his vehicle and spoke to the crowd at Kalerwe without any police notice. That amounts to illegal assembly, which is contrary to public order management Act,” Police told court.

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South Sudan will officially become a member of the East African Community (EAC) at a ceremony in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam on Friday, April 15.

According to an EAC release, Presidents Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan and Tanzania’s Dr John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, the Chairperson of the East African Community Heads of State Summit, will sign the Treaty of Accession of the Republic of South Sudan into the East African Community (EAC).
At their 17^th Ordinary Summit held on March 2, 2016 in Arusha, Tanzania, the EAC Heads of State received the report of the Council of Ministers on the negotiations for the admission of South Sudan and then designated President Magufuli to sign the Treaty of Accession.

The sixth member of the EAC, South Sudan is currently embroiled in acrimonious fallout between President Kiir and his erstwhile Vice President Dr Riek Machar Teny.

The two leaders disagreed mid December 2013 but have since gone on to sign a peace deal that is expected to return sanity to the troubled country, where tens of thousands have been killed and more than two million internally displaced.

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Opposition kingpin Dr Kizza Besigye is finally responding to social media buzz that he pledged Shs2 Billion to help Mulago National Referral hospital for the purchase of a new radiotherapy machine.

Besigye, the former Forum for Democratic Change Presidential candidate in a tweet told off state run New Vision who had broken the news – “This is total fiction!! I fully support all effort to save Mulago but I haven’t made any pledge.”

Of course, Besigye’s response to the tweet above will not be taken in good faith by Uganda’s Leading Daily who have been for long bashed for discrediting the opposition.

There has been uproar on social media with thousands set to suffer after Uganda’s only radiotherapy machine, used for treating cancer broke ‘beyond repair’ last week. The machine was donated in 1995, and has required repair work on a number of occasions over the years. Radiotherapy is a treatment involving the use of high-energy radiation to target cancerous cells.

The hospital gets 44,000 new referrals a year from Uganda, as well as from neighbouring countries including Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.

An estimated 75 per cent of new referrals may need radiotherapy treatment, the unit’s Spokesperson Christine Namulindwa said.

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