Besigye undergoes surgery after violent arrest
By Timothy Nsubuga
2nd May 2011: Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] Party President Dr. Kizza Besigye has had to undergo urgent reconstructive surgery to refit the metal pins that had been inserted into his right hand to hold together his shattered bones after he was shot by government security operatives.
Orthopaedic Surgeons at Nairobi Hospital where Dr. Besigye is admitted found that nearly all the pins that were holding together the bones in his injured right hand got dislocated as a result of the violent manner in which he was inhumanely thrown on the back of a police pick-up truck during his arrest on Thursday 28th April.
No permanent damage done to Besigye’s eyes
A reliable source at Nairobi Hospital also told Uganda Correspondent that the doctors there also examined Dr. Besigye’s “tear-gassed” and “pepper-sprayed” eyes and ears thoroughly under general anaesthetic and concluded that there was no permanent damage done to both his eyes and ears.
They however carried out some clinical procedures to clean and clear residues of the toxic teargas and pepper spray that government security agents prayed into his eyes and ears during his violent arrest on Friday April 28th as he attempted to drive to his office at Najjanankumbi on Entebbe road.
The FDC leader was shot two weeks ago as he attempted to ‘Walk-to-Work’ in response to the call made by ‘Activists for Change’; a new Ugandan political pressure group, to protest the spiralling food and fuel prices in Uganda.
While the opposition has heaped the blame for the rising food and fuel prices on the government’s failure to, among other things cut taxes on fuel, the government has responded bullishly by refusing to head those calls, arguing that the problem is international and it has no control of over it.
The Kenyan government that was also threatened with similar protests however took a different view and moved swiftly and cut taxes on diesel and Kerosene. END. Please login to www.ugandacorrespondent.com every Monday to read our top stories and anytime mid-week for our news updates.
