{"id":319627,"date":"2016-02-18T20:41:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/uganda-polls-presidential-challenger-kizza-besigye-arrested\/"},"modified":"2016-02-18T20:41:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:41:56","slug":"uganda-polls-presidential-challenger-kizza-besigye-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/02\/18\/uganda-polls-presidential-challenger-kizza-besigye-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Polls: Presidential challenger Kizza Besigye arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/uganda-presidential-candidate.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"64\">\n<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;\">\u201cHe 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,\u201d said Shawn Mubiru, senior FDC official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe walked in and saw them pre-ticking ballot papers. They arrested him and took him to an unknown place.\u201d<\/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><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besigye is the strongest among President Yoweri Museveni\u2019s seven challengers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur focus is not on him, since we know who has him. We will tell them to bring him back,\u201d Mubiru added. \u201cOur focus is on Uganda. Ugandans have voted in Dr Besigye, not Museveni.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besigye, 59, Museveni\u2019s 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;\">\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: News24<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Ugandan police arrested top presidential challenger Kizza Besigye on Thursday as polls closed, his Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party said. \u201cHe 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,\u201d said Shawn Mubiru, senior FDC official. \u201cHe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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