The Ugandan police have arrested former presidential candidate and FDC party leader Dr Kizza Besigye for the third time this month as they broke up a new "walk to work" protest with tear gas on Thursday Morning.
Dr Besigye had walked a few kilometers from Kalerwe market and was arrested near Mulago round about where he had been mobbed with scores of his supporters' shouting "tumulese (we have brought him)."
During all his former attempts at walking to work, the FDC leader hadn't managed to reach this venue because police would always foil his attempts from near his home.
However, earlier Dr. Besigye had been forced to abandon his planned walk to work from his Kansangati home when on setting foot outside his gate, he was confronted by a group of 30 women. The women talked to him begging him to abort the planned walk to work demonstration because their children who follow him always land in trouble and some are arrested by police.
While Dr Besigye reportedly sympathesized with the women demands, he informed them that it was police who hurt their children and not him.
He asked them, "Also go and talk to Police over the same…I don't cause chaos but police does."
The women later told Dr Besigye that they were on their way to meet President Museveni over the matter and ask for dialogue between the two leaders.
Sources indicate that the women could have been sent on behalf of the NRM party as the party had on Wednesday mobilized boda bodas in the city by allegedly giving them money for savings to dissuade them from following the opposition leader during his now weekly work to walk demonstration.
Source: Monitor