The Kasangati Grade One Magistrates Court is expected this morning to start hearing the case where Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate in last month’s election challenges the continued occupation of his house by police personnel.
Besigye has for the last one month remained under house arrest, to “prevent him from causing unrest in the Capital Kampala”
Yesterday, the Deputy DPP Caroline Nabaasa on behalf of the respondents the Attorney General’s team asked for more time saying that they were not ready with their sworn affidavit in response to the accusations.
The Magistrate Prosy Katushabe gave them up to evening to have tendered in the affidavit, or court would carry on without it today.
Without this affidavit, court is at liberty to order for the immediate release of Dr Besigye according to his Counsel David Mpanga.
However, last evening Col Besigye expressed doubts that police would be willing to implement the court’s ruling if it goes in his favor.
“When court eventually orders Police to vacate my home and never to do it again, who’ll implement it?” he wondered in a tweet.
As such, the FDC strongman called upon his supporters and the citizens to “prepare” to implement the court order.
Police when contacted, refused to the delve into detail on whether or not they would be willing to vacate Besigye’s home on court orders, saying that the matter should be determined first.
The Kampala Metropolitan Police mouthpiece Patrick Onyango told us on phone, “Why don’t we let court decide on that first?”
He added briefly, “But as you know we are a law abiding institution; we do follow court instructions as they come.”
Meanwhile, the Police force has loosened restrictions on friends, relatives and supporters visiting Dr Besigye at his home in Kasangati, but keep an keen eye on each one of the visitors.
Every visitor has to be recorded in a book, questioned by the officers and filmed before being let in.