{UAH} HISTORY: WHO ATTACKED BAGANDA (1966)?

HISTORY: OBOTE, A GIGANTIC FRAUD.

WHO ATTACKED BAGANDA'S LUBIRI (1966)?

Picture: First day after toppling Obote 26th January 1971. The capital Kampala was crowded with people cheering the new President Idi Amin.

The debate around the 1966 Lubiri attack focuses mainly on who was responsible for the assault on the Palace.

Prime Minister Milton Obote (RIP) has persistently tried to absolve himself of any responsibility. He has instead tried to claim that it was Idi Amin's fault.

This attack is when Obote deposed and attempted to murder Uganda's first President the late Kabaka Sir Edward Muteesa II.

Here are the simple facts:

On Monday 23rd May 1966, as Executive Prime Minister of Uganda, Obote declared a State of Emergency.

The following day on 24th May 1966, as Executive Prime Minister of Uganda, Mr. Milton Obote ordered Colonel Idi Amin then deputy army commander, to attack the Lubiri Palace, arrest President Sir Edward Muteesa and retrieve the new weapons that Obote claimed the Kabaka had acquired.

The day immediately after the assault, on 25th May 1966, Milton Obote made a speech in parliament explaining what was going on.

In this speech he mocked President Muteesa saying: "The House must note the desperate desire of Sir Edward Muteesa to commit the people of Buganda to a line of thinking which was purely his own, and without any shred of evidence that it was supported by the people as a whole. [Obote is talking about the bill tabled by the Buganda parliament calling for the new Uganda government to leave the Kingdom].

Obote continues: "I want this House to realise that Sir Edward has never addressed any political rally anywhere in Uganda since he was born in 1924 (laughter from crowd). Sitting in a palace surrounded by hangers-on, he was never in a position to know the current thoughts of the people (more laughter)."

However, the important part is when Obote then says: "The security forces have been empowered to control the situation within the Emergency Regulations [the state of emergency declared two days before this speech], and these include arrest without a warrant. It is within the context of the Emergency Regulations that the security forces yesterday brought under their control all the palaces of the Kabaka. All the palaces as from yesterday are now under the effective occupation of the security forces."
Many Obote supporters have been claiming that their leader had nothing to do with the Lubiri attack.

Yet it is very clear here that Colonel Amin was acting under express orders pertaining to Obote's "Emergency regulations".

The full speech to parliament is in the New Vision link below.

Talking about President Muteesa, the speech continues with Obote arguing: "Government must be based on the will of the people and not the whims of one man who happens to occupy a position because of the status that his ancestors occupied in the past.[Here Obote is talking about Edward Muteesa as a Monarch who inherited his King position from his father King Daudi Chwa II].

Obote continues; "We do not sit here because of the positions of our fathers or mothers, or because of the positions of our grandfathers or great-grandfathers. (laughters from crowd)"

It is therefore quite clear that Obote was making inflamatory statements rather than de-escalate the high tension between Sir Edward Muteesa, Obote himself, and the people of the Buganda Kingdom.

If we look at who organized, planned and ordered the attack the Lubiri palace, wasn't it therefore clearly Obote?

The palace premises were ransacked during the assault because the Uganda army was searching for the hidden weapons as ordered by Obote.

Somehow when asked about the issue in 2005 by journalist Andrew Mwenda, Mr. Obote suddenly feigned ignorance of the whole event, forgetting even his own speech to parliament.

He told Andrew Mwenda; "I did not order the attack on the Lubiri in 1966."

And in his attempt to deflect the blame on Field Marshal Idi Amin, Obote says: "I even ordered Amin to stop immediately, but by this time Muteesa had fled."

However, in that 1966 speech right after the assault, Obote said: "Government is, however, now in possession of documentary evidence that Sir Edward Mutesa was already decided by the 12th of April, 1966, to mount a full scale rebellion against the authority and the oneness of Uganda."

He continues saying: "The method by which this rebellion was to be executed was three fold: First, Sir Edward carried out abortive appeals to African states to assure him of diplomatic recognition and moral support as the head of a state which does not exist (laughter by the parliamentarians)."

Obote then says: "These moves by themselves do constitute an act of treason, punishable under the laws passed by this Parliament."

It is clear here that Obote has taken things in his own hands and is the person in control of security developments.

But because years later he would attempt to blame Amin for this event, one has to look at basic
investigation techniques to establish the following;

1 - Who had a motive for the attack?

Answer: Obote is the only person who had a known motive for the assault, disarming the Kabaka to crush a purported rebellion.

2 - Who had a conflct with the victim?

Answer: Again Obote is the only one who had longstanding political wrangles with the Kabaka as seen in the speech. The lines were drawn when Obote approved the 1964 referendum results on the infamous "lost counties" after Kabaka Muteesa refused to sign the document.

3 - Who benefitted from the Lubiri attack?

Answer: Again Obote is the only person who benefitted politically from those events when he subsequently appointed himself executive President.

4 - Who continued the actions initiated by the attack?

Answer: Once more it is Obote who continued the attack on the Lubiri politically when he then abolished all Kingdoms and the Constitution that recognized their existence.

The most telling point that Obote himself was behind the attack is that he never reprimanded anyone following the assault as required by the rule of law if Colonel Amin had done anything wrong.

Amin and his battallion continued serving normally.

In fact, in 1968, Idi Amin was even promoted to Major General.

By Hussein Lumumba Amin
15/11/2016.
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Obote's little known speech to parliament the day after the Lubiri attack (as published by the state-owned New Vision newspaper): newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1189386/obote-attack-kabaka-mutesa-ii

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