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Byanyima blocked at Rwanda border By Richard M. Kavuma July 28, 2003 Police were by last evening still holding Ms Edith Byanyima, after she was stopped from crossing the border into Rwanda. But the Internal Affairs minister, Dr Ruhakana Rugunda, told The Monitor that Byanyima was only required to record a police statement in Mbarara. "I am certain that she is going to sleep in her [father's] house in Mbarara tonight," Rugunda said by telephone at 8:45 p.m. It all started around 2 p.m. Edith, a sister of Mbarara Municipality MP Winnie Byanyima, was travelling with the MP's 3-year-old son, Anselm, and her own son, Tau. Speaking by telephone from the Katuna border post at 4 p.m. yesterday, Edith said that she was travelling to visit her sister, Ms Martha Byanyima, a lecturer at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology. "I gave in my passport and the officer left the room and started making phone calls," she said. "He then went to the car and talked to my children. It is now two hours and my children are hungry." The officer reportedly told Byanyima that "the conditions" did not allow her to leave [the country] but he did not explain the conditions. "When I insisted to get an explanation, he said I could not leave because I had Anselm with me," Byanyima said. Ms Winnie Byanyima could not be reached for a comment last evening but her father, Mr Boniface Byanyima, said that Edith had been ordered to report to Kabale Police Station. He said that he knew Edith was going to visit relatives in Rwanda and that she had the two children with her. "I now understand that she is on her way to Mbarara Police Station," he said at around 8.15 p.m. Rugunda had told The Monitor at around 5 p.m. that Edith was stopped because she had no "custodial authority" to take Anselm out of the country. He later said that the police were investigating the circumstances under which Edith Byanyima was travelling with her nephew. "She will be released [after recording the statement] on police bond so that if police want her she can be called upon," the minister said. Anselm's father, the former presidential candidate Col. Kizza Besigye, has lived in exile since August 2001 when he fled the country, beating government surveillance on him. This is not the first time Anselm is getting attention from state authorities. In December 2001, his mother was furious that security operatives had trailed her son while the MP was out of the country. © 2003 The Monitor Publications ---------------------- "Mulindwa Edward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Police Intercept Edith With Anselm Besigye > >POLICE and immigration officials yesterday intercepted Edith Byanyima, sister to >Mbarara Municipality MP, Winnie Byanyima, who was carrying Anselm Besigye (Winnie's >son) into neighbouring Rwanda. >The two were reportedly traveling in a Toyota Mark II saloon car, registration >number, UAD 633B, when they were intercepted at Katuna border post at about 2.45pm. >Police spokesman, Asuman Mugenyi, told The New Vision last evening that Police and >immigration officials stopped the two after Edith failed to produce the boy's travel >documents. > >Published on: Sunday, 27th July, 2003 > > The Mulindwas Communication Group >"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy" > Groupe de communication Mulindwas >"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie" > -- He it is Who created for you all that is on earth...He is the All-knower of everything. Swaddaq Allahu Al-Adhim. Michael Bwambuga. __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455
