Daily Monitor
Saturday February 20 2021
National Unity Platfrom (NUP) party supporters and aides of former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, arrive at the General Court Martial in Makindye, Kampala, for bail application hearing on February 8. PHOTO/KELVIN ATUHAIRE
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In February 2016, Forum for Democratic Change’s (FDC) Michael Kabaziguruka had just won the Nakawa Division parliamentary seat.
His party’s presidential candidate, Dr Kizza Besigye, who had lost to President Museveni in an election whose results he disputed, had declared what he termed as a “defiance campaign” against the government.
However, Mr Kabaziguruka could be initiated into Parliament, the security agencies, which believed Mr Kabaziguruka was a key cog in Dr Besigye’s defiance campaign, pounced and charged him with 22 others at the General Military Court Martial with hatching a plot to overthrow Mr Museveni’s government - using sanctuaries of Kampala, Wak