Police non apologetic over their brutal attack on Dr. Besigye

By; Ben Musanje

12^th November 2019

Police have said there is no need to prosecute its Senior Superintendent of Police –SSP Rashid Agero, for brutalizing and smashing Dr Kizza Besigye’s vehicle.

The Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, said whatever SSP Agero and his juniors did to Besigye and other members of Forum for Democratic Change –FDC was within the laws and standards of the police operations procedures particularly when handling riotous crowds.

Enanga said that Besigye adamantly parked in the middle of road disrupting traffic flow, especially at Spear Motors junction and played a death ear to the Police that called on him to clear the road prompting police to use available measures to save the situation.

Agero is seen in a video that has since gone viral seen smashing Besigye’s vehicle using a gun butt in addition to pepper-spraying him inside his vehicle. The four-time presidential candidate survived hitting his head on the tarmac when he was splashed with water cannons.

Besigye says he would be dead or badly injured had it not been the presence of FDC supporters in the car who pulled him. Since then Besigye and other FDC members have started a campaign to raise one million signatures from Ugandans to have President Museveni and other security officers dragged to International Criminal Court- ICC based at Hague in Netherlands.