Former Forum for Democratic Change presidential candidate Rtd Col Dr Kizza Besigye has on Friday 15th 2019 been awarded Shs10million in damages for illegal arrest by police officers who grabbed him from a Kenya Airways plane at Entebbe Airport on October 3, 2016.
Justice Musa Ssekaana of the High Court Civil Division ruled that Dr Besigye was embarrassed and ashamed when he was grabbed from the stairs of a plane saying that the police ought to have arrested him in a dignified manner especially at the airport which is a gateway for tourists and foreigners coming into and going out of the country as such crude manner of arrest tainted bad picture to the country and could also have economic consequences.
Dr Besigye Said that on October 3, 2016 he was pulled off from Kenya Airways plane by security personal who connived with CAA officials and that he was driven against his will, through remote routes from Entebbe Airport to his home in Kasangati, Wakiso District.
This is not the first time for assault and manhandling of opposition leaders by security operatives.
Recently High court in Kampala ordered Government to pay the leader of Women’s League in Opposition Ingrid Turinawe Shs170million for manhandling and squeezing of her breasts in Walk to Work protests of 2012/2013.