Can NRM hide the truth?Besigye on the trying moments of his trial

Besigye on the trying moments of his trial
Kampala

Many Ugandans know him as a forceful politician. Some have even dismissed his firebrand demeanor as that of a power hungry individual intending only to dislodge President Museveni for his selfish interests.

What most Ugandans, however, do not know about opposition Forum for Democratic Change -FDC - president, Dr Kiiza Besigye is that beneath the fiery persona is a quiet, humane and contemplative individual, whose tears have rolled down his cheeks many a time when his basic human instincts have gotten the better of him.

In an exclusive interview with Sunday Monitor, the grouchy-voiced politician for the first time speaks emotionally about his most painful moments during his trial on treason and a rape case that he says “fragrantly aggressed” his moral and ethical standing.
Although describing the recent dismissal of his treason case by the Constitutional Court as a courageous move by the judges, Dr Besigye says the rape trial was very painful from different perspectives.

Painful experience
“First of all, it was painful because my moral and ethical standing was being fragrantly aggressed when it was very clear that there was not even a slight basis for doing so and that is a source of pain to know that you are being treated in that way deliberately. It was quite painful,” he says. It was also painful to see a former National Resistance Army war veteran, Malita Namayanja, whom he said had “a parental kind of relationship” testify against him in the rape case against him in 2006.

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