{UAH} LAWYER THAT STOOD FOR ANTI-AMIN COUP PLOTTERS BURRIED

1/6. PRESIDENT IDI AMIN HAD MANY ENEMIES BUT MOST SURPRISING WERE HIS KIN [THE LUGBARA] WHO, UNDER BRIG. ARUBE [RECENTLY DECORATED AS A HERO BY GEN. TUMWINE AND M7] WHO, WITH OTHER OFFICERS FRESH FROM RUSSIA ON TRAINING, THOUGHT THAT THE ARINGAS [FROM YUMBE AND KAKWAS FROM KOBOKO] WERE HAVING TOO MUCH OF OR MONOPOLISING  POWER DECIDED TO HAVE A GO AGAINST HIM.

2/6. THEIR PLAN WAS SIMPLE: DRIVE ARMOUR TO ENTEBBE, CAPTURE IDI AMINI OR KILL HIM IF HE RESISTS AND THEN TAKE POWER.THEY RANG HIM AT HIS ENTEBBE STATE HOUSE NUMBER [TEL 2244 ENTEBBE]. WHEN HE PICKED IT , THEY EXPRESSED THEIR WISH TO DISCUSS MATTERS WITH HIM. UNKNOWN TO THEM, THE TEL. NUMBER HAD BEEN 'EXTERNALLY EXTENDED BY POST OFFICE ENGINEERS TO HIS VEHICLE BY HF RADIO AND HE WAS AT MAKINDYE [MUTESA'S ] STATE LODGE (SINCE RETURNED TO MMENGO). HE THERE FORE WAS WATCHING AS THE STARTED OF FROM MALIRE BARRACKS TO ENTEBBE. HE TOLD HID BOYS IN ADVANCE AND IN THE END, THE PUTCHISTS LOST A FIGHT A 'ABAYITA-ABABIRI' TRADING CENTRE. ARUBE, WOUNDED, WAS RUSHED TO MULAGO HOSPITAL BUT LATER SHOT HIMSELF.

THE REST WERE BUNDLED UP AND PLACED BEFORE THE MILITARY COURT MARSHAL AT BOMBO.

3/6. THIS IS WHERE THE CRIMINAL LAWYER, KNOWN IN TOWN THEN, IN THE '60 AND '70'S AS 'AYIGUYIGU', A FORMER SEMINARIAN, POLICE INSTRUCTOR AND LATER DPP [TILL REPLACED BY HIS JUNIOR AYUME] CAME IN. THE COUP PLOTTERS KNEW HE HAD STOOD FOR ONE OF AMIN'S FORMER WIVES CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING TEXTILES. WHEN THEIR LEGAL CHAMBERS WERE APPROACHED BY THE CONDEMNED SOLDIERS, [ACCORDING TO JUSTICE R. KASULE OF THE SUPREME COURT TODAY, AT THE REQUIEM MASS AT NAMUGONGO MARTRYS' BASILICA LAST THURSDAY AND A FORMER COLLEAGUE] THEY ALL HESITATED BUT LATE 'AYIGUYIGU' VOLUNTEERED TO DEFEND THE COUP-GROUP AGAINST IDI AMIN, AF ALL PEOPLE.

4/6. HE FACED AMIN'S TRIBUNAL FOR THE PUTCHISTS [COUP PLOTTERS]  AND TO THE SURPRISE OF MANY, HE SUCCESSFULLY CAME OUT WITH HIS CLIENTS [ONE CALLED LT. COL. ELI] HE WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR THE HARD, RISKY CASES. 

5/6. THAT'S HOW PROTAZIO AYIGIHUGU, THE FATHER OF 89 KIDS [SOME SAY CLOSER TO100+], ALL LIVING IN ONE SCHOOL-LIKE COMPOUND [BUKEDDE NEWSPAPER OF 12TH APRIL 2014] THE EX-SEMINARIAN FROM KISORO, BECAME FAMOUS, NOT JUST BECAUSE OF HIS 4-ACRE ESTATE AT MBALWA, NAMUGONGO OR OF HIS 4 OFFICIAL WIVES, BECAME FAMOUS. SOME COLLEAGUES CALLED HIM A 'FOOLHARD' [FOOLISHLY BRAVE] BUT FOR THOSE HE STOOD FOR IN COURT "pro-bono---free of fees" AND SHARED LOCAL 'BOOSE' WITH, HE WAS A HERO, A LEARNED MAN THAT CAME TO THE GRASS ROOTS, HAVING ABANDONED THE COMFORTS OF SENIOR QUARTERS, UPPER NAGULU ESTATE.

6/6. THAT HE COULD SURVIVE, COSMA [LATER KASSIM] OBURA'S PSU AT NAGURU AND 'ESCAPE' FROM A MILITARY POLICE VEHICLE WHEN IT GOT MECHANICAL PROBLEMS AT CLOCK TOWER, ON THE WAY TO THE BUTCHERY AT MAKINDYE MILITARY POLICE BARRACKS MAY HAVE BEEN DUE TO THA FACT THAT SOME OF HIS TORMENTORS WERE HIS FORMER STUDENTS AT POLICE ACADEMY, KIBULI/NAGULU. OTHERWISE, IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO ASK AS WHY HE CONTINUES TO PRACTICE, AFTER HIDING BRIEFLY, UNDER IDI AMINI.

R.I.P PROTAZIO