Col. Kizza Besigye who claims to have credible intelligence has Thursday alleged the UPDF plotted to eliminate Robert Kyagulanyi during the Arua mayhem last August.
Besigye further claims that the State would later arrest, prosecute and convict him for Kyagulanyi’s murder.
Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine was arrested following the fracas that marred election campaign in Arua.
Before his arrest, his driver Yasin Kawuma was short dead. He was seated in a co-driver’s chair.
Bobi Wine immediately tweeted that he had survived an assassination attempt.
Addressing the press at his offices at Katonga Road in Kampala, Besigye said opposition leaders have landed on credible intelligence how the State is planning to eliminate them.
The powerful opposition leader explained that his sources in army allege that the plan is to use media to portray opposition parties as fighting each other.
“Killing of Kawuma was part of a government plot to convince the public that members of the opposition were at loggerheads and kill those they fear threaten their own popularity,” Besigye claims.
There is a video on social media which shows Bobi Wine and his supporters disrupting a rally being addressed by Besigye and FDC leaders.
These opposition political dynamites were canvassing support for their candidates who had contested for Arua Municipality by-election.
Besigye said the government plot is a reaction to President Yoweri Museveni realising that his government had lost popular mandate after the 2016 general elections.
Army Responds
UPDF deputy spokesperson Deo Akiki laughed off the claims and described Besigye as unrealistic.
“He of all people should know that it has never been the system of the UPDF to assassinate political opponents,” said Akiki adding that: “This, he should know, is not the approach of the UPDF and government for that matter. If this was our approach, can you imagine the kind of situation we would be having in the country?”
The spokesperson of SFC an elite force of the army which is accused of being at the centre of the violence tasked Besigye to name his sources.
