Uganda: Opposition witnesses "harrassed"

The FDC in Uganda has pleaded with the government to stop its functionaries from harassing witnesses who have sworn affidavits supporting Dr Kizza Besigye's petition against President Museveni's re-election. "Our witnesses particularly the soldiers, are being terrorised and hunted. Those who have sworn affidavits are being harassed yet they are also Ugandans and voters," FDC spokesperson Mr Wafula Oguttu told journalists yesterday at the party's head office in Najjanankumbi, Kampala. "We have chosen legal ways of fighting our political wars and government should not deny us that chance," Oguttu pleaded. "Let witnesses present their side and let government challenge them."