{"id":191218,"date":"2016-02-18T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=191218"},"modified":"2016-02-18T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:56:25","slug":"uganda-polls-presidential-challenger-kizza-besigye-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/02\/uganda-polls-presidential-challenger-kizza-besigye-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Polls: Presidential challenger Kizza Besigye arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ugandan police arrested top presidential challenger Kizza Besigye on Thursday as polls closed, his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He was in his home district where he voted when he got information that there was an illegal tally centre manned by the NRM and police,&#8221; said Shawn Mubiru, senior FDC official.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;exQvRa7DwbPQOVqDba4pgIzthHirhZ1U&#8221;]&#8221;He walked in and saw them pre-ticking ballot papers. They arrested him and took him to an unknown place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was no immediate police confirmation, but Besigye has been repeatedly detained by police in the past, and is commonly released without charge hours later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Television station NTV Uganda showed images of Besigye being arrested by police in the Kampala suburb of Naguru.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besigye is the strongest among President Yoweri Museveni&#8217;s seven challengers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Our focus is not on him, since we know who has him. We will tell them to bring him back,&#8221; Mubiru added. &#8220;Our focus is on Uganda. Ugandans have voted in Dr Besigye, not Museveni.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besigye, 59, Museveni&#8217;s former personal doctor, is making his fourth run at the presidency and ended his campaign by claiming the election would be neither free nor fair.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: News24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan police arrested top presidential challenger Kizza Besigye on Thursday as polls closed, his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party said. &#8220;He was in his home district where he voted when he got information that there was an illegal tally centre manned by the NRM and police,&#8221; said Shawn Mubiru, senior FDC official. 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