{UAH} 1971 ARMY COUP THAT ALMOST BECAME A PEOPLE'S COUP

Brothers and sisters, today at 3.45 pm , it will be 46 years ever
since Warrant Officer l Sam Wilfred Aswa announced the Uganda Armed
Forces take over government from Milton Obote and handed over to Idi
Amin.
Most people cerebrated Obote's fall but others like the late Mwalimu
Julius Nyerere called it 'jumping from a frying pan (Obote) to fire.
The army promised a return to civilian rule in five years but by then
the elders of North Kigezi under Mzee Kikira with legal guidance from
a young John Patrick Amama Mbabazi. had proposed Amin tgo rule for
life , which Defence Council endorsed untoil he was toippled in 1979
by Tanzanian People's Defemce Forces and Ugandan exiles including
President Yoweri Museveni.
Was Amama, who was also a FRONASA coordinator, deliberately wanted to
mislead Amin, or he was just an AGIP (Any Government In Power)?
What lessons? We have seen coups in 1966, 197, 1979, 1980, 1985, civil
wars, civil strive etc and we don't need others. Let's go for free
and fair elections and we accept the outcome so long as it is not like
NRM primaries where l hear Dr. Tanga Odoi owned a printing machine of
ballot papers and his aides were said to be selling ballot papers to
candidates at 10 m/-.

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