This website can exclusively report that a team of senior prosecutors from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution, detectives from police’s Criminal Investigation Department and those from the military were dispatched last week to travel abroad and search for evidence which will be used against opposition strongman Dr Kizza Besigye, his political assistant Hajji Obed Kamulegeya Lutale and other co-accused.
According to highly placed sources, the team is being led by Richard Birivumbuka a senior prosecutor at the DPP’s office and they are expected to return back to the country before the end of this week.
Sources said that Birivumbuka’s team is going to interact with security officials and government officials in Switzerland and Greece where they claim that Besigye was coordinating the treason plans against Museveni from.
Sources disclosed that the team first engaged their counterparts in Kenya where Dr Besigye and Lutale were kidnapped from in November 2024.
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This website has also established that these are some of the efforts that the government is doing to survive the embarrassment of failing to provide sufficient evidence resulting in Besigye conviction.
According to sources, because of the sensitivity of the matter, it is the reason why Birivumbuka did not appear before Justice Duncan Gaswaga of the Crimes War Division of the High Court to lead the prosecution against the eleven National Unity Platform (NUP) foot soldiers.
The development comes at a time when State is regretting the mistake committed by Birivumbuka to present committal papers that led to the sending of the accused persons to the High Court for trial without securing a Court Order allowing them to extract crucial evidence from the accused’s phones.
Sources claim that State is also looking for key witnesses, especially the alleged armed dealer who leaked the claimed operation against Museveni to Uganda security agencies that resulted into Besigye’s arrest.
Besigye is expected to appear before Justice Emmanuel Baguma of the Criminal Division of the High Court to argue out his other bail application after losing two earlier
