{UAH} Fwd: {UMBS} CORRECTION 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF IDI AMIN COUP NOT YET 46

Brothers and sisters, it was 45th and not yet 46th

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From: Ahmed Musaazi <akmusaazi1966@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 06:41:50 -0800
Subject: {UMBS} CORRECTION 455TH ANNIVERSARY OF IDI AMIN COUP NOT YET 46
To: UAH <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>,
"uganda-muslim-brothers-and-sisters@googlegroups.com"
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45TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1971 COUP D'ETAT
Brothers and sisters, today at 3.45 pm , East Africa Standard Time, it
was 45 years ever
since the late Warrant Officer l Sam Wilfred Aswa announced the Uganda Armed
Forces take over government from Milton Obote and handed over to then
Maj. Gen. Idi
Amin Dada.
Most people cerebrated Obote's fall but others like the late Mwalimu
Julius Nyerere called it 'jumping from a frying pan (Obote) to fire.'
But people reacted saying that "It was no longer an army coup but a
people's coup."
The army promised a return to civilian rule in five years but by 1977,
the elders of North Kigezi under Mzee Zedekia Kikira , paternal uncle
or Taama omuto of Dr. Warren Kizza Besigye, with legal guidance from
a young lawyer, John Patrick Amama Mbabazi,had proposed Amin to rule for life
, which Defence Council endorsed until he was toppled in 1979 by
Tanzanian People's Defence 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, 1971, twice in 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 party primaries where l hear Dr. Tanga Odoi owned a printing
machine of ballot papers and his aides sold them at 10 million shillings.

I WAS FOUR YEARS OLD IN MY HOME NNAMBIRIIZI VILLAGE, Nsoga sub
county, Mijwala Sub County, Mawogola County. There were
cerebrations led by a former KY leader, the late Mwalimu Kaluuna
Mukiibi singing "Kabaka ajja, Kabaka adda." He had put on a bark
cloth, my aunt, the late Nantale donated a calabash of beer and one
pastoralist donated a bull they slaughtered and started feasting.
l asked my mother what had happened, and he told me the "Gen. Amin had
taken over." l didn't know much but Obote;s departure was cerebrated
even in the remote village of Nnambiriizi, five miles from Ssembabule,
which is 30 miles from Masaka, which is 80 miles from Kampala.

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