Col. Kizza Besigye, the powerful opposition leader in Uganda has confessed before cameras for training individuals to takeover government using non violent means.
Besigye, reasserted that engaging an incumbent however, peaceful the process might be is nonetheless fighting.
“Fighting doesn’t mean taking up arms, we can peacefully fight a government using civil disobedience. We can engage the farmers in the village to cease supplying their food to towns. Do you think we will stay in towns hungry?”
He cited an example of how Uganda gained its independence in 1962, “Ugandans at the time engaged colonialists. Ugandans were not armed but defeated these whites.”
For long, Col. Besigye has been consistent with his message that he chooses a nonviolent approach to remove President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni from power however, much it takes long time to yield results.
Besigye was appearing on NBS TV weekly talk show Frontline to discuss road to 2021 elections.
He said, “when you are talking about Reforms, it means you are reforming the law; how elections are organised; that elections are conducted according to the law; under the rule of law. Is there rule of law? My understanding is that there is no rule of law but rule by law.”
He added that if there is no rule of law, you can’t talk about changing the law and if there is no rule of law, then how do we reform it.
“When we talk about rule of law, we imply that the organs of the state are functional and act judiciously. Is our Judiciary independent? No it is not.”
“There is an attack of Parliament where we saw Gen. Museveni soldiers attacking MPs in Parliament. We that infamous letter from the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga asking who invaded the Chambers of Parliament.”
