EDITORIAL: Repression has an economic price; it’s high, it’s ugly
Ugandan Police use a water cannon to force former FDC president Dr Kizza Besigye out of his vehicle in Kiraka, Kampala on November 4, 2019. COURTESY PHOTO | DAILY MONITOR
On November 4, President Museveni’s former bush war comrade and personal physician, Kizza Besigye, had yet another brush with Ugandan security personnel, whose water cannons almost flushed him out of his vehicle in the Kampala suburb of Kireka.
Police smashed the windshield of his vehicle to extract him. When he addressed the media later that day, Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Patrick Onyango did not appear to know on what charges Dr Besigye was being held.
