Wanted by police for treason, Dr Aggrey Kiyingi, an Australia-based heart surgeon, has said he will run for president despite the threats of arrest.
Dr Kiyingi also warned that he would expose what he called President Museveni's dirty political tricks. In an email to The Observer on April 15, Kiyingi denied receiving any summonses to appear before a Ugandan court to answer treason and murder charges.
He accused the president of fabricating the said charges out of fear of the challenge he poses to Museveni's political life. Early this year, Kiyingi declared his intention to run for president. The announcement, which surprised Ugandans as Kiyingi was previously not known to be political, came shortly after he had been named in alleged subversive activities.
Commenting on the charges he faces, Kiyingi said: "I am only aware of what at the moment I describe as baseless allegations made in Ugandan newspapers about my alleged criminal role in various killings in Uganda."
He said he had not been officially contacted by any court of law or the Ugandan government. The cardiologist, who moved to Australia in 1981, said he is not intimidated by "the Ugandan dictator" who has ruled Uganda for 29 years.
Kiyingi compared Museveni to Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak both of whom were driven from office, the former after an insurgency and the latter in a popular uprising. Read more
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