The former presidential candidate, according to highly placed security sources, was airlifted to Moroto at around 6pm after his arrest earlier on Wednesday in downtown Kampala, but Police would neither deny nor confirm having transferred him to Karamoja region.
“Who gave you that information?” Police Spokesman Fred Enanga said when contacted. He added: “What I know is that he (Besigye) is in custody and in a gazetted place.”
Dr Kizza Besigye skirted 24-hour security surveillance at his Kasangati home in Wakiso District to unexpectedly emerge in the city’s busy business district, attracting frenzied crowds.
Police and soldiers marshaled up, beating or locking people up in shops indiscriminately before towing away the Opposition politician’s vehicle.
Dr Besigye was then taken to Kololo airstrip from where, according to a source that preferred not to be named due to sensitivity of the matter, he was transferred to Nalufenya prison in Jinja district.
Kololo airstrip, alternately called Kololo Ceremonial Grounds, is where President Museveni, who has been in power for 30 years and is also president-elect, will take oath in a few hours for a fresh 5-year mandate.
Highly placed sources say Dr Besigye was flown to Moroto in a helicopter that landed at Nadunget airstrip at about 6pm. He was placed and driven away in a white double-cabin pick-up truck, whose front and rear number plates were covered.
The Inspector General of Police Kale Kayihura was on Wednesday night reported by an aide to be in a security meeting when this newspaper tried to reach him on why Dr Besigye had been incarcerated in Karamoja sub-region.
Dr Besigye has repeatedly asked police to indict him formally and remand him to a proper gazette place instead of turning his own home into a prison.
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