{UAH} Controversial Newly Elected UKIP MP Is Son of Mulago Hospital Doctor

The newly elected and first United Kingdom Independence Party MP Douglas Carswell is the son of Dr John Wilson Carswell, former medical doctor in Mulago Hospital 1968-1987. He is also the doctor whose experience during the dictator Iddi Amin inspired Dr Garrigan in Giles Forden's novel and produced into the film "the Last King of Scotland".

His son, Douglas Carswell who was born in Uganda in 1971 was elected last Friday as the first United Kingdom independence Party, a party whose ideas are similar to the Republican Tea Party in the US. They are anti immigration among other right wing agenda.

For those who lived in Tank Hill (Muyenga), Kiwuruliiza (Kabalagala) and Kisugu areas in Kampala during the 1979 Liberation War will remember Carswell, whose wife was also a doctor in Nsambya hospital, as the doctor with Orange Combi. His VW Combi had the word "Daktari" boldly written on it and was the only civilian vehicle plying the road up to the day the TZ soldiers entered Kampala.

This was the same doctor, who during the swearing of President Yusuf Lule on 13th April 1979 at Parliament building, arrived for the occasion in a car flying the Union Jack flag. He introduced himself as the secret and unofficial UK High Commissioner during the time when Amin severed diplomatic relations with UK. He said he run the High Commission from his offices in Mulago hospital, mainly consular services. He boasted how he outwitted Amin's intelligence. A month after the swearing of new government of Lule, he handed over his "office "to Sir Michael Possnet, the former DC in Teso in colonial period who was appointed as the first post Amin UK High Commissioner at a small ceremony attended by the press.

This story of Dr Carswell reminds me of the book by the Kenyan author, Hillary N'gweno "Men from Pretoria" in which he mentioned that, the dreaded apartheid South African Intelligence (BOSS) used doctors and musicians of top night clubs frequented by the country's elite as their agents in countries like Kenya and Uganda.

It also reminds me of the late David Martin's book on Uganda in which he stated that the after granting independence, the British planted their agents in various guises such as priests, farmers, academicians in all corners of their former colonies.

Dr Carswell was deported by NRM government in 1987.


Paul



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