Uganda police transferred by plane, Forum for Democratic Change’s (FDC) Dr Kizza Besigye to a detention facility in the northern district of  Moroto, over 400 kilometers from Kampala where he was arrested.

Besigye was arrested after he escaped a ’24-hour’ security surveillance at his Kasangati home in Wakiso District. He unexpectedly emerged in the city’s Central Business District (CBD) attracting frenzied crowds.

Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga, declined to talk about the specifics of Besigye’s where about and he’s detention. “What I know he is in lawful custody,” Enanga said.

An Opposition team led by Sam Nangilo, FDC chairman for Moroto District, visited Dr Besigye at the detention facility. Nangilo said Besigye was being detained without recording a statement or being informed of his offences.

“He hasn’t recorded any statement. He was given a mattress, but he told me he has a cough,” Nangilo said.

Besigye has repeatedly asked police to indict him formally and remand him to a proper gazetted place instead of turning his own home into a prison.

His family said that they did not know his whereabouts.

Earlier,FDC had released a video on YouTube of Besigye “swearing-in” as president of Uganda as he and his party.

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