Former FDC presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye has come out to explain why his ‘war machine’ has been pimped with burglar proofing. According to Besigye, since 2011, he has been sinking millions of money in repairing wind screens that police smash in an attempts to arrest him.
“It is not about protecting myself and the people who be inside the car, but my car glasses too… Even some police vehicles have them [the wire-mesh glasses]. So, let us all put and we get into the battle field,” Besigye said.
According to the four-time presidential candidate, police have been finding hard time to arrest him because of moving inside this car.
“What I have done is build protection for myself so that I can be able to move in a car that gives them hard time,” he said.
It should be remembered that in 2011, Besigye’s car window was smashed with a hammer and pistol butt by Gilbert Arinaitwe Bwana, an overzealous cop who sprayed him with pepper.
The trend has since never changed with IGP Kale Kayihura in 2016 promising to buy him a new vehicle after realising the damages that police had been causing to this very car, a Toyota Land Cruiser Reg. Number UAN 661V.
Besigye declined the offer.