{UAH} WHO OVERTHREW AMIN? RUTABASHIRWA'S FRONASA , TPDF OR KIKOSI MALUUM?
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DIDNT MUSEVENI'S FRONASA FIGHT AND OVERTHROW IDDI AMIN?
Though Museveni was a member of Obote's UPC, in Tanzania he enjoyed the privillege of having attracted the attention of Mwalimu Nyerere during his sudent days at Daressalaam university. With this privillege he ran parallel efforts to ouster Iddi Amin. In February 1971 together with other exilees they formed the Temporary Committee. In March it was changed to the Committee of Seven having been formed by seven people among them Zubairi Bakari with whom they had been together in the intelligence services (GSU). In July it became Front For National Salivation (FRONASA). The top leadership of FRONASA was composed of Mukombe Mpambara as the Chairman, Yoga Adhola as the Secretary for Publicity, Jack Maumbe Mukwana as the Secretary for Mobilisation, Eriya Kategaya as the Secretary for Finance and Yoweri Museveni as the Secretary for Defence.
It in this capacity that he opened up clandestine cells inside Uganda for carrying out acts of sabotage aimed at tarnishing the image of the Iddi Amin government. Later, in 1980 Museveni confenssed thus "During this period we however caused alot of destabilisation as far as Amin government was concerned. It was following these encounters that ........some of the most prominent members of Amin's government fled into exile." While the Obote faction under the patronage of UPC had a free hand in recruiting fighters from all corners of the country, little known Museveni could only ally with those from his home area in the western region, and a few others from the eastern region courtesy of the likes of Raiti Omongin, Jack Maumbe Mukwana, Yoga Adhola and a few others. As Secretary for Mobilisation, Maumbe Mukwana recruited quite a number of young men from Bugisu for military training in Tanzania. However, Museveni undermined these boys by branding them lumpens in preference for his home boys, the likes of Saleh, Ivan Koreta, Sheif Ali, Fred Rwigyema, Sam Magara and a few others. This was a deliberate move by Museveni to raise a personal army to outwit the main exile force of former President Obote and the beggining of the North/South divide.
Despite all those manoeuvres, FRONASA never took root and by 1974 it had allmost died out. Some of its founding members like Eriya Kategaya had left for the USA. The remaining few FRONASA fighters were stuck in Tanzania. Sam Magara ran to Milton Obote who helped him to take a law degreet at the University of Daressalaam. Several other anti-Amin groups sprung up. Andrew Kayiira, Olara Otunu and Godfrey Binaisa founded the UFU based in the USA. Yusuf Lule and Martin Aliker founded the Uganda Society based in Nairobi. Eteker Ejalu founded the Save Uganda Movement. Prince John Barigye formed the UNM in 1976 based in Lusaka Zambia. The likes of Sekasi and Nyombi formed the PLP based in Nairobi. Museveni in person joined the last two above where in each case he would opportunistically secured for himself the Defence fortfolio.
However, Museveni maintained separate links with clandestine hit squads inside Uganda coordinated by the likes of Amama Mbabazi, Otafiire and a few others with funding from Wyclife Kazoora. At the time of the invasion from Tanzania in 1978, FRONASA was just on paper. After the liberation forces(both TPDF and Kikosi Maluum) had crossed the border and were battling Amin in Buganda areas, Museveni was busy recruiting fron the Rwandese Refugee camps and his home area to put in place what came to identified as FRONASA during the post Amin period. During the Moshi conference shortly before the fall of Iddi Amin, FRONASA was represented by only Museveni, Late Fred Rubereza and another little known person.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
It in this capacity that he opened up clandestine cells inside Uganda for carrying out acts of sabotage aimed at tarnishing the image of the Iddi Amin government. Later, in 1980 Museveni confenssed thus "During this period we however caused alot of destabilisation as far as Amin government was concerned. It was following these encounters that ........some of the most prominent members of Amin's government fled into exile." While the Obote faction under the patronage of UPC had a free hand in recruiting fighters from all corners of the country, little known Museveni could only ally with those from his home area in the western region, and a few others from the eastern region courtesy of the likes of Raiti Omongin, Jack Maumbe Mukwana, Yoga Adhola and a few others. As Secretary for Mobilisation, Maumbe Mukwana recruited quite a number of young men from Bugisu for military training in Tanzania. However, Museveni undermined these boys by branding them lumpens in preference for his home boys, the likes of Saleh, Ivan Koreta, Sheif Ali, Fred Rwigyema, Sam Magara and a few others. This was a deliberate move by Museveni to raise a personal army to outwit the main exile force of former President Obote and the beggining of the North/South divide.
Despite all those manoeuvres, FRONASA never took root and by 1974 it had allmost died out. Some of its founding members like Eriya Kategaya had left for the USA. The remaining few FRONASA fighters were stuck in Tanzania. Sam Magara ran to Milton Obote who helped him to take a law degreet at the University of Daressalaam. Several other anti-Amin groups sprung up. Andrew Kayiira, Olara Otunu and Godfrey Binaisa founded the UFU based in the USA. Yusuf Lule and Martin Aliker founded the Uganda Society based in Nairobi. Eteker Ejalu founded the Save Uganda Movement. Prince John Barigye formed the UNM in 1976 based in Lusaka Zambia. The likes of Sekasi and Nyombi formed the PLP based in Nairobi. Museveni in person joined the last two above where in each case he would opportunistically secured for himself the Defence fortfolio.
However, Museveni maintained separate links with clandestine hit squads inside Uganda coordinated by the likes of Amama Mbabazi, Otafiire and a few others with funding from Wyclife Kazoora. At the time of the invasion from Tanzania in 1978, FRONASA was just on paper. After the liberation forces(both TPDF and Kikosi Maluum) had crossed the border and were battling Amin in Buganda areas, Museveni was busy recruiting fron the Rwandese Refugee camps and his home area to put in place what came to identified as FRONASA during the post Amin period. During the Moshi conference shortly before the fall of Iddi Amin, FRONASA was represented by only Museveni, Late Fred Rubereza and another little known person.
INFORMATION IS POWER.
Viele GruBe
Robukui
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