{UAH} 1st LADY MAMA KAY AMIN (RIP)
Picture: My late mother First Lady Kay Amin, wife of President Idi Amin, hosts a foreign dignitary at the State House Nakasero in Kampala (1973)
As the nation watches disturbing events of death and bloodshed unfold in Arua town where journalists have been arrested, others disappeared, politicians abducted and driven off in break neck speed while reportedly being injected with unknown chemical substances and then detained in unknown locations. Innocent citizens shot dead by state agents as they campaign for the replacement of the late area MP who was himself also brutally killed in a hail of bullets. Cold blooded politically motivated murder of a politician and his bodyguard by unknown gunmen just a few months ago as he drove home to break the days Ramadhan fast. The bloodshed and chaos coincides with the day I honor the memory of my late mother First Lady Kay Amin, a daughter of the West Nile region, whose father was the Venerable Archdeacon Silas Tileku Adroa, Archdeacon of Maracha from 1976 until his untimely death on 16th December 1997. My mother was a devout Christian who always celebrated all Christian religious holidays, particularly her famous Christmas parties for school children at the gardens of State House every year. She passed away in mysterious circumstances on this day exactly 44 years ago (14th August 1974). She was abducted by four unknown men at her personal residence/flat near Kisseka market, in down town Kampala city, and then summarily murdered. Her body was later found by police investigators in the boot of a vehicle which was being used by her killers to try and dispose of her body. For those who watched the movie "The Last King of Scotland" the role of Kay Amin was played by African-American actress Kerry Washington.
While they might have had political issues against my father, it was quite despicable to see people enjoying the death of an innocent mother, and then try to assassinate her character by portraying her as some lewd woman. When in fact she was an educated person who fought to uplift the plight of women and children, and even ensured that women benefit from Amin's economic empowerment policies and placements in senior government positions. That is how the Uganda's first woman minister, woman ambassador, woman director, woman engineer, woman pilot, female judge and many other fields, were first appointed by President Idi Amin as the first Ugandan president to ever embark on women emancipation as a deliberate government policy in Uganda in 1972.
"Unknown people surrounded our house and then rang the bell. We refused to open. Frank tried to contact people in security but then those people outside forced their way into the house." - This was Esther Kalimuzo narrating what happened to her husband Frank Kalimuzo a year earlier. He was Vice Chancellor of Uganda's Makerere University. This was exactly the same thing that happened to my mother Kay Amin. Four mysterious men first loitering suspiciously around the house. She called her younger brother John who was an officer in the army and told him about her concerns regarding what was going on outside the house. But by the time John arrived, the acriminals had fled in their escape vehicle with my mother captive barely a minute before John arrived at the scene. Many stories have been narrated by the killers to confuse the public. If they were true securty officers on duty, they would have conducted the arrests directly and officially. Also, law enforcement institutions anywhere in the world do not first send anonymous letters to people before arresting them. Besides my mother and Frank Kalimuzo, others who went missing at around that same time and in the same way after recieving those mysterious letters were one Basil Bataringaya and Nekemia Bananuka. Another person who disappeared in the exact same way as my mother was the reknowned case of Chief Justice Benedicto Kiwanuka. As we all know, he was abducted in broad daylight, just like my mother, at his chambers at the High Court and in public, never to be seen again. To this day, the last words in the Amin police investigation on the Ben Kiwanuka file are: "Whereabouts still unknown".
The banned book, Unsowing the Mustard seed by one Norman Ahimbisibwe researches these events and says: "With virtually no exception, all the prominent Ugandans who "disappeared" during the 1970's were the victims of FRONASA rebels deadly guerrilla work (their infamous "covert operations") against the Amin government."
They were then quick to systematically point their blood-soaked fingers at President Amin, skillfully accusing him of the very murders they committed themselves.
In reality, when armed rebels are involved in covert operations against a government, where they killing butterflies?
Unsurprisingly, to this day they cannot account for any single covert operation of there's simply because it mostly involved killing innocent prominent citizens.
In the Daily Monitor newspaper of 4th July 2005, former 2001 Presidential candidate Francis Bwenge who was once the head of the Uganda Freedom Movement geurilla group said:"For a long time, Ugandans and the world have been fed on qute a number of stories. In some instances cold-blooded murders and political assassinations have been blamed on those who never committed them, or covered up to escape the long arm of the law, or future vengeance of the followers and relatives of the victims."
Clearly, and even after decades of lies and meticulous falsehoods, the battle for the establishment of the truth in the history our country still wages on.
As I call for calm and reason in the country today and particularly in Arua town following the disturbing events leading to the by-election, I pray that May First lady Kay Amin's soul, and the souls of all those innocent persons who faced the same disturbing fate as she did, rest in eternal peace.
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