Bernard Mujasi Mbale LC5 Chairman

Bernard Mujasi a member of the national resistance movement the ruling party says Besigye is using the walk to work protest to highlight the great problems that are currently affecting the entire country.

Mujasi made the remarks during his inauguration ceremony as LCV chairperson. Soroti Municipality Member of Parliament Michael Makula was also present and agreed that Besigye arrests could have been conducted in a more peaceful manner.

The violent arrest of Besigye resulted in a countrywide riot that left an unconfirmed number of people dead.

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias

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A group of over 30 Residents of Kasangati along Gayaza road have visited and asked the opposition leader to take his walk to work protest away from their area.

The residents mostly women appealed to Besigye not to walk to work through KasangatiThe resident say the last three accasions Besigye started his protest from his Kasangati home several people were injured and their homes and property destroyed.

The residents asked the opposition leader to take his walk to work protest to his other homes in Buigoolobi and Rukungiri in western Uganda.

Besigye announced early this week that he will be walking again on Thursday in the two day week protest to agitate for the government to intervene in the rising cost of living.

Earlier the residents had threatened to sue Besigye for the destruction caused but have instead asked him to relocate his protest.

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias

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Besigye walking to work on Thursday

Besigye was arrested earlier on Thursday at Kalerwe as he walked to work on the fourth day of the walk to work protests organized by Activists for Change, a local pressure group. The group says they are protesting against the rising cost of living in Uganda.

Besigye has been denied bail and remanded to a prison yet to be established. He was charged with unlawful assembly. It is the 4^th time in two weeks that three time Presidential candidate is being arrested and charged for similar crimes after being caught walking to work.

State Attorney Gladys Nyanzi who led the prosecution told Court that Besigye led an lawful assembly Thursday morning  with protesters marching along Kalwere Gayaza road.  She said the protest affected public order and hampered the rights of other road users in the areas. Attempts by Besigye’s lawyers to appeal for bail were futile as the magistrate reportedly had many other cases to attend to.

It is not clear where besigye has been imprisoned but reports indicate he has been taken to Nakasongola prison to join DP President Mao. A source told us that the prison is far off and opposition activists will unlikely go there to protest for their release.

President Yoweri Museveni warned yesterday that Besigye and other opposition supporters will not be allowed to walk to work, but the activists went ahead, and this time Besigye has been imprisoned.

Besigye is second President of a political party to be imprisoned over walking to work, after Mao was locked up on Monday.

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