{UAH} UGANDA CRISIS OF 1966, WHAT LESSON S AFTER 50 YEARS

50 YEARS AFTER 1966 UGANDA CRISIS, WHAT LESSON!
Fellow countrymen and country women, in midnight tonight 24th May
2016,, it will mark 50 years of the climax of 1966 Uganda Crisis when
a Special Force under the command of the then Army Chief of Staff,
Col. Idi Amin Dada, on orders of the then Prime Minister,Apollo Milton
Obote, who had assumed powers of President Sir Edward Muteesa ll and
Vice President Sir William Wilberforce Nadiope, invaded Mengo palace
to bring out Muteesa dead or alive.
The Kabaka escaped narrowly to England via Burundi, but the detailed
stop over at Lugusuulu in Mawogola, is still fresh in our minds.
The crisis that started in February 1966, ended in 1967 with the
promulgation of 1967 Republican Constitution whose precursor was the
1966 Pigeonhole Constitution which Obote imposed after suspending 1962
Independence Constitution.
I have read what was said by Sir Edward Muteesa and Milton Obote among
others, and l covered commission of inquiry into the violation of
human rights in Uganda from 1962 to 1966.
It is my prayer, that President Yoweri Museveni, fresh from the
swearing in ceremony, and after forming a government, should appoint a
truth and reconciliation commission, as he promised while paying
tribute to the late Dr. Obote when his body was brought to parliament
in October 2005. This was also in the manifesto of all political
parties and presidential candidates that participated in 2006 general
elections.

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