Besigye said the Bible he believes in prescribed seventy as the life expectancy and he is currently sixty-six, meaning “I have four years to continue with this struggle.”
Former Forum
for Democratic Change-FDC President Col Dr. Kizza Besigye has hinted at retiring
from opposition politics in four years’ time.
Speaking at
a memorial service for the Busiro South MP late John Patrick Musisi at Namuzzi
village, Ssisa sub-county in Wakiso on Friday, Besigye said the Bible he
believes in prescribed seventy as the life expectancy and he is currently
sixty-six, meaning “I have four years to continue with this struggle.”
He said that during the remaining period, he would commit his entire
effort to fight until freedom is achieved.
Besigye criticized
those who do not believe in an age limit in the performance of given functions, adding
that the age limit was a biblical prescription.
Luganda
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Earlier on
he had scoffed at as futile efforts by the opposition in Uganda to dislodge the
ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) from power using the ballot. He said
that the same NRM-suffocating political parties will never allow those parties
to freely organize.
He said he
had listened to the Leader of Opposition in Parliament (LOP) Mathias Nsamba
Mpuuga outlining the legislative agenda for 2023. Besigye said the year 2026
would not be a magical year even if the agreed joint opposition candidate wins
because Museveni is the Electoral Commission” and the “courts in case of
electoral litigation.”
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Besigye said
the late Patrick Musisi who died in 2005 still lives because of the struggle he
started, the struggle for freedom still continues through the people he
mentored. He said Musisi worked for the unity of the opposition to
struggle for that freedom and the conditions he was militating against still
obtain as critical opposition is denied space and assembly.
He also noted
the rampant illegal arrests and abductions, all of which he said needed
Ugandans working together to make a new beginning and a transition before they
can think of political ideologies and colors.
In
attendance was a host of current and former MPs, politicians, and religious and
cultural leaders who attended the ceremony. MPs included Muwanga Kivumbi
(Butambala), Dr Lulume Bayiga (Buikwe South), Joseph Sewungu (Kalungu West),
Robert Ssekitoleeko (Bamunanika), Betty Ethel Naluyima (Woman – Wakiso) and
Asumani Basaalirwa (Bugiri).
Other
politicians included former MPs Ibrahim Kasozi, Salam Musumba, Latiff
Ssebaggala, and Paul Mwiru.
Sadam
Gayira, President of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) said the NRM was a
tree already eaten by ants and the opposition only needed to push in a common
direction or else that tree hits the house and animals.
Dr. Bayiga
said that the late Musisi generously invested in them as budding politicians in
the Uganda Young Democrats-UYD.
Samuel Lubega
Mukaku, said the opposition was not making any gains when he sees an opposition
party recruiting from a fellow opposition party.
