Melyvn Lorenzen, Werderbremen striker has not yet decided his commitment with Uganda

The 21-year-old will not feature in Africa Cup of Nations qualification match when Botswana will take over Uganda Cranes on Saturday June 4, 2016.

“Decision time [for Lorenzen] will be after the match against Botswana,” Uganda FA communications manager Ahmed Hussein said.

He impressed for Uganda Cranes in a 2-0 defeat friendly match played with Zimbabwe  at Rufaro stadium in Harare on Tuesday.

Lorenzen was born in London and qualifies to play for both Uganda and German through his father and mother respectively.

Uganda coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic praised the contribution Lorenzen had made during his time with the squad.

“We shall definitely miss the extra impetus he would have brought to the team as we saw in the friendly match against Zimbabwe,” the coach said.

“So for now we shall concentrate on the able players we have in the team to accomplish our mission.”

The coach will be worried about the fitness of striker Faruku Miya, who plays in Belgium for Standard Liege, after he missed the loss to Zimbabwe with concussion.

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Uganda Police in Kasangati, Besigye’s residence

Members of parliament on the legal and parliamentary Affairs committee have grilled the Uganda Human Rights commission officials over their slow intervention on the house arrest of the FDC leader Dr,Kiiza Besigye by security agents. This was raised by the member of parliament for Busiro south Joseph Balikudembe on the legal committee  while the officials of the Uganda Human Rights led by the commission’s commissioner Agaba Maguru and the secretary to the commission Mr.Gordon Mwesigye  appeared before the committee over the commission’s budget for the financial year 2016/17. The MPs queried that the Uganda Human Rights commission has not done much to restore the rights of Dr.Kiiza Besigye .

However, the commissioner Uganda Human Rights commission Agaba Maguru confirmed to the committee members that Dr. Besgye filed a case with the commission and it’s hearing is delayed because of there being another case in court. He said that the Besigye case hearing by the commission will start if the case in court is concluded. Agaba added that the Uganda Human Rights commission is going to meet president Yoweri Museveni  and the prime minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda over Dr. Besigye’s house arrest and other human rights related cases.

Dr. Kiiza Besigye has been kept at his home by security since after the February 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections.

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Besigye meeting UHRC officials at his home

The minister of state for internal affairs Ambassador James Baba tells off the FDC presidential candidate Dr.  Kizza Besigye to denounce defiance campaign in order to regain his freedom. James Baba told parliament chaired by speaker Rebecca Kadaga that police is empowered under the police Act to detect and prevent crime, adding that one doesn’t need to first commit a crime to be detained. He stated that so long as there is a campaign for defiance, the Police has every right to take measures to safeguard the country.

His statement came after MPs led by Kitgum woman member of parliament Beatrice Anywar tasked government to explain under what circumstances and what law is Besigye being denied freedom to leave his home and also the nature of charges against him.

Just met officials of Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC). I asked for end of illegal detention in illegal place. pic.twitter.com/egyjv9U2CP

— Kifefe Kizza-Besigye (@kizzabesigye1) March 10, 2016

Other MPS who include Barnabus Tinkasiimire and Elijah Okupa noted that since the election time, Besigye has not been allowed to leave his house which they claimed is a violation of his rights. The members of parliament said that if Besigye has broken any law he should be charged instead of putting him under house arrest.
The minister said that the IGP Kale Kayihura recently issued a statement explaining police’s actions against Besigye; however, he didn’t table this statement resulting into the speaker ordering him to bring it to parliament.

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Former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) President General, Dr. Kizza Besigye has thanked all those people who spent their time and resources at Kira Division in a bid to rescue him from police brutality.

Besigye says that hundreds of opposition politicians and supporters who were headed by Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago, Kyadodno East Member of Parliament,  Ibrahim Nganda Ssemujju, Mukono Municipality Member of Parliament Betty Nambooze, Kaseese woman MP, Winfred Kiiza, FDC woman leader, Ingrid Turinawe, and current FDC president general Maj. Mugisha Muntu spent a full day with him at the police station where he was detained without recording a single charge.

Besigye was eventually carried to his home by the famous van led by the District police commander of Kasangati, Mr. Chemonges who is a son of Capt. Juma Seiko, the body guard of president Museveni’s younger brother, Gen. Salim Saleh.

Police arrested Dr. Kiiza Besigye from his home at Kasangati in Wakiso district. Besigye’s arrest followed a press conference where Besigye briefed reporters his next course of action accusing the Police of curtailing his freedom of movement.

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The Former Presidential Candidate in Uganda, Dr Kiiza Besigye was arrested on Tuesday morning and taken to Kira road Police station (a place which some Ugandans refer to as ‘torture Chamber’).

The Police said that Dr Besigye was arrested to stop him from using public transport (Public Taxi). But Dr Besigye’s car was attacked and damaged by some security operatives who were in plain clothes last Friday 1/03/2013.

What puzzles Ugandans most is that the same Police arrested Kiiza to stop him from using public transport well aware that his car was damaged and vandalized as police looked on.

Also Ugandans ask where in the world Police can arrest someone because he/she decided to travel by public transport? Police intercepted the former Forum for Democratic Change president at his home in Kasangati as he departed for court in Kampala.

Kampala North police chief, Steven Tanoi however says that Besigye was arrested because police had obtained information that Besigye was planning to cause mayhem in the city on his way to Buganda Road court where he faces charges.

Besigye was supposed to reappear in court on Tuesday in case he and others are accused of managing an unlawful assembly that led to the murder of an Assistant Inspector of Police (AIP) John Bosco Ariong.

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On Tuesday 5^th March 2013 John Bosco Ariong’s Trial will be on at Buganda Rd Court at 9:00am. The defendants in this case are Dr. Kizza Besigye-Kifefe [former president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)], Lord Mayor of Kampala, Erias Lukwago, FDC woman leader, Ingrid Turinawe, the Lord Mayor of Kawempe division, Hajji Mubarak Munyagwa, the woman MP of Kampala, Nabilah Naggayi Ssempala and Hanold Kaija, who is Col. Besigye’s body guard and secretary.
Ariong was killed last year on Ben Kiwanuka Street in Kampala. Dr. Besigye was participating in a city road inspection tour led by Kampala Lukwago.

The tour turned chaotic as police attempted to prevent Lukwago’s entourage from walking on foot in accessing Kampala central division.

Police fired tear gas, beat up some innocent civilians, and some groups of Ugandans retaliated the police brutality on them with stone throwing in which an Assistant Inspector of Police John Bosco Ariong was injured and died.

Ariong, 48, who left behind a wife and eight children, served the Force for 26 years. Police spokesperson Nabakooba Judith says this “murdered police officer” had been deployed as part of an operation to ensure the maintenance of public order during an opposition protest. Besigye says that Ariong died when while police was stopping them from walking on foot to Kampala. Again they will walk on foot to attend the trial at Buganda road court.

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While thousands of mourners, including Tanzanian leader Jakaya Kikwete, joined President Museveni on Monday to bid farewell to his father, Mzee Amos Kaguta, who passed away on Friday last week, the former president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Col. Kiiza Besigye and the current FDC president, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu did not bother to go for the burial or to send their condolences.  Museveni’s political friends like president Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Salva Kiir of South Sudan at least sent him condolence messages.

Most of the mourners kept on watching all the corners to see whether Museveni’s former allies Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu and Col. Kiiza Besigye would keep their political differences aside and join Museveni while he mourns his father. Late Kaguta was buried at President Museveni’s ancestral home in Rwakituura, Kiruhura District.

Besigye says that he did not attend the burial of Museveni’s father because no one informed him about his death. Statehouse sources when contacted confirmed that they forgot to inform the leaders of political parties about the death of Kaguta. Also, the news coming from Muntu’s camp indicates that he too was not officially informed about Kaguta’s death. However, another source in FDC told Walakira Nyanzi of the Ultimate Media Consult that he would have attended the burial but he feared to go there because people would have thought that Museveni and Muntu are the same. Muntu is a former friend of Museveni who turned foe.

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Col. Kizza Besigye has said he is still mourning the death of the father of Uganda’s head of state, Mr. Amos Kaguta. Kaguta died at International Hospital Kampala last week. Thousands of people went to witness his burial. Besigye, while meeting his party members at the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) head offices in Kampala, welcomed all people went to Rwakitura for the final send off of Mr. Kaguta and also to commiserate with president Museveni and his entire family in that trying moment of grief.

But in my observation; Besigye says, he asks himself a question that why was Mzee Kaguta buried at the grave yard single handedly in Rwakitura?

He says that he had expected to see mzee Amos laid at a grave yard where his fore fathers were laid because in African traditions people have continuity of generations and Ugandans have never heard of the president’s grand parents who bore mzee Amos. In African culture people respect ancestors that is why they are buried at the same grave yards. So Besigye in a joking manner wondered whether we only have mzee Amos Kaguta -Yoweri Museveni and Muhoozi Kaineruga. He was seeking clarity on this!

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As former Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president general, Dr. Col. Kiiza Besigye Kifefe doesn’t stop to amuse, even today he has politically done the same.

Addressing his supporters in Butaleja district, Eastern Uganda today, Col. Besigye challenged President Museveni Kaguta of the Republic of Uganda that if he is serious about fighting corruption in Uganda as he (the president) recently said then he should be standing on the roadside with Bishop Zac Niringiye and distribute fliers for the anti-corruption crusade.

The retired col. says that he was shocked the good Bishop was on Monday last week arrested by police for doing exactly what president Museveni vowed to do, to fight against corruption!!!

Bishop Zac Niringiye was arrested with his eight cohorts at Makerere University for distributing anti corruption fliers to university students. He was interrogated for over nine hours at Wandegeya police station before he was released on police bond. The police officers at Wandegeya police station say that they arrested the Bishop on orders from their bosses.

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Former president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Col. Dr. Kiiza Besigye has condemned the manner in which the retired former assistant Bishop of Kampala Archdiocese, Dr. Zac Niringiye and eight other clergies were arrested on Monday by the Police.

The Police in Kampala arrested and detained nine anti-corruption activists (clergies) of the Black Monday group including Bishop Niringiye. The group which was arrested at Makerere University was later released on police bond pending investigations.

But Besigye says that the way the Bishop and his cohorts were arrested was too brutal and inhuman. “How could police pull the Bishop as if they were arresting a terrorist?” Besigye wonders.

The Bishop was arrested for allegedly distributing anti-corruption leaflets which the police say was containing false and subversive language.

However, Besigye says that the Bishop was only giving out leaflets to whoever wanted and his message was not in anyway brutal.

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