*Why fake that he is sick? He is in USA for orders from his masters in CIA.
He says he hates m7. But he likes Kagame. Does that make sense?
It is sad it is only running dogs that are masquerading as leaders in
Africa.*
Besigye breaks silence on ‘ill health’
[image: Dr Kizza Besigye]
Dr Kizza Besigye
Posted Sunday, November 27 2011 at 00:00
Dr Kizza Besigye, rumoured over the weekend on social networks to have
passed on in the US, last evening said except for a “troublesome flu”
attack, he is in good health.
Speaking to this newspaper by telephone from his family’s home in New York,
the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party leader urged his supporters to
“relax” and ignore people “anxious to pronounce me dead”.
“How many times am I going to die?” he asked in a guttural voice. “I am
sure there are many people who would wish me dead, or are even working
towards it. I think some of their handlers say, ‘we have done the work and
he is about to die’.”
The three-time presidential challenger to President Museveni, to whom he
was a personal physician during the NRA guerrilla war, however, did not say
who was after his life.
About a month ago, his party officials made allegations both in Parliament
and again at a press conference that top security officials were
coordinating a government plot to snuff out the opposition leader.
Government described the allegation as “ridiculous”.
In the interview, Dr Besigye said his last Sunday’s flight to the US was a
scheduled trip, not an emergency one for medical attention. He said: “If
there was need to see a doctor (in the US), I would. But for now, there is
none.”
On Thursday, FDC vice President for Eastern Uganda, Ms Salaam Musumba, lent
credence to the rumours when she said they had, as party leaders, agreed
that Dr Besigye flies to US for thorough medical checkup following “bad
allergic reaction” that “really puts him down.”
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“When I tell people that his biggest problem is flu, they don’t take it
seriously [yet] he has not been improving,” she told Sunday Monitor on
Thursday. Yesterday, Dr Besigye spoke of a “troublesome flu” attack that he
said began before his travel to the UK a fortnight ago, and that the cold
has lasted for weeks.
“I left home with that flu,” he said, “and it was not that it was causing
me a lot of problems.” Both Dr Besigye and wife Winnie Byanyima, who is the
director for Gender at the United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP),
said they re-united to celebrate the US national Thanksgiving holiday
together. “We have just had a lively thanksgiving day with family and
friends,” Ms Byanyima wrote in an email preceding our telephone
conversation with the husband.
Asked about the purpose of his travel, Dr Besigye, who promised to return
to Uganda in a week’s time, said: “I came to visit my family and I also
have other engagements here.” He offered no specifics.
The opposition politician’s health and safety have been a matter of concern
among his supporters, and the nervousness worsened after police detective,
Gilbert Bwana Arinaitwe, assaulted him during a brutal arrest during the
height of the walk-to-work demonstrations in May.
Dr Besigye was flown for treatment at Nairobi Hospital, half-blind. This is
after Mr Arinaitwe was caught on camera dousing him with liquid pepper,
including directly into his eyes, after the police detective smashed the
windows of Besigye’s Land cruiser with a sledge hammer and pistol butt.
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