Is Museveni killing Besigye over a shared woman?
What we all know is that Museveni’s former bush-war personal Dr Kizza Besigye is critically ill and wasting away in Luzira Prison.
The four-time presidential candidate, Col Dr Besigye was arrested after being forcibly and illegally whisked from Nairobi, Kenya, where he’d been attending an event.
Currently, Besigye is facing false allegations of military-level treason charges, denied proper care, even after hospitalization for severe dehydration, only to be returned to his cell in the wee hours of the night.
Meanwhile, his official wife, Winnie Byanyima, has openly stated that the authorities want Besigye to die in prison.
How our country, Uganda got here — the history, the power, and the bitterness:
• Besigye was once part of the very struggle that brought Power-hungry criminal Yoweri Museveni to power. Their political split wasn’t overnight, it began as Besigye called for reforms, transparency, anti-corruption and democratic values within Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM). Besigye was deliberately frustrated and sidelined until he broke away to run for president in 2001.
From 2001 and in all subsequent elections, the state’s response was not dialogue — it was harassment, arrests, trumped-up charges and vilification.
• In 2006, Besigye confirmed publicly that he knew about a past relationship between Museveni and his wife, Winnie Byanyima, which reportedly occurred during the revolutionary war years — long before Besigye and Winnie married. He made it clear this did not cause their political rivalry, but the affair is widely documented and has been part of public and media discussion for decades.
( https://iol.co.za/news/africa/2006-12-23-i-knew-of-musevenis-affair-with-my-wife/ )
The affair was acknowledged in a 2006 report, which noted that Museveni and Winnie Byanyima were involved during the 1981-86 guerrilla period — a period when Besigye was serving as Museveni’s medical doctor.
• Winnie herself has spoken about her past with Museveni as a normal relationship from long ago, emphasizing that it was not scandalous and she moved on, focusing instead on public service and leadership roles across Africa. (https://www.pulse.ug/articles/news/byanyima-drops-more-details-on-challenging-past-relationship-with-museveni-2025022211025118944?utm_)
- What remains undeniable is that Besigye’s life has been a lifetime of resistance: arrested on politically motivated charges multiple times; tried over and over; smeared in the media; and now, detained while critically ill — with his health deteriorating behind bars.
This is no longer a story about elections or legal disputes. It’s a regime weaponizing state power against a man who refuses to bow.
Let’s be clear:
🔸 Jailing a critically ill former comrade — a man who once fought beside you — is not governance.
🔸 Turning treason charges into a weapon against dissent is not protection of the state.
🔸 Refusing medical compassion to someone nearing death is cruelty, not leadership.
History will remember how this ended.
If Dr Kizza Besigye dies in custody, it will be a national indictment — not just an individual tragedy. It will be the moment Uganda’s conscience stood still and its justice collapsed into personal retribution.
Museveni can choose legacy over bitterness.
As Ugandans, we must choose law and order over tyranny.
But the clock is ticking — and the world is watching.
Power-hungry, murderous criminal Museveni will soon be gone and forgotten.