All things are not well in Uganda’s main opposition party (FDC) as the party’s youth have started complaining that Col. Kiiza Besigye is using them to enrich himself.

We have been informed that the youth complain that Besigye reportedly moblizes them to stage demonstrations such as the walk to work and the police tear gases them.

The chairperson of FDC youth, in Nakawa, Richard Nvanungi says that after the demonstrations Besigye leaves most of the youth in jail and goes to Europe to show the tapes of demonstrations to his funders.

Nvanungi says that when Besigye returns home he doesn’t reward the youth for the “work done”, but instead uses the money to buy land and buildings.

Nvanungi alleges that Besigye is running over 20 petrol stations around the country, owns an estate in Gangu in Makindye, Kasangati, Mpererwe and Rukingiri among other areas.

Although most people know that hotel imperia in Kampala are owned by city tycoon Sudhir Rupereria, Nvanungi alleges that Besigye recently bought it and left Sudhir to run it.

Nvanungi also alleges that some of the people who have been arrested in demonstrations are still in Luzira prison and Besigye has done little to rescue them.

It was not possible to independently verify these claims. We shall bring you Dr. Besigye’s reaction to these allegations as soon as we managed to get him to answer us back.

By Doreen Nyanzi