Controversy surrounds Uganda’s treatment of Kizza Besigye and Kenya’s alleged role, as calls for justice and accountability grow louder.
Political tensions rise as Kizza Besigye’s detention fuels criticism of Uganda’s regime and Kenya’s alleged role in facilitating opposition crackdowns.
The manner of Besigye’s detention has caused an uproar, with concerns over Kenya’s role and the heightened crackdown on the opposition in Uganda. An ally-turned-foe of veteran President Yoweri Museveni, Besigye has run unsuccessfully against him in presidential elections four times since 2001 and has often been targeted by the regime.His wife Winnie Byanyima, who is head of UNAIDS, the United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, said on X that her husband was kidnapped Saturday while in Nairobi for a book launch by Kenyan opposition politician Martha Karua.
“You can be arrested from anywhere because countries have treaties or instruments that they signed between them that allow for extradition,” Ugandan government spokesman Chris Baryomunsi told reporters Wednesday. “We condemn this blatant abuse of the law by the regime here in Uganda, and sadly the authorities in Kenya,” he said in a post on X.
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