{UAH} ON THIS DAY 1972: LALOBO SPOILS OBOTE'S PLANS TO OVERTHROW AMIN.

Exactly 48 years ago, the first Tanzanian invasion of Uganda took place on 19th September 1972 when deposed dictator Milton Obote tried to topple the Amin government and return himself to power. While the main thrust of Obote's invasion was crushed by the civilian population in the Western Uganda town of Mbarara, Obote's second group of henchmen sank as they tried to cross Lake Victoria to Entebbe. None survived.

A third group failed to take off by plane from Tanzania to capture Entebbe Airport because the East African Airways plane they had "hijacked" for the mission with help from Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, that plane crash-landed in Arusha where it was supposed to pick it's cargo of Obote henchmen. In Museveni's book "Sowing the Mustard Seed' he writes that "an inexperienced Lalobo (their pilot) failed to unlock the landing gear mechanism properly, causing a tyre to burst and the plane, an East African Airways DC-9, to swerve off the runway and crash before their mission even started". This group was supposed to be led by Obote's most trusted lead sycophant, David Oyite Ojok.

A fourth and last group of Obote henchmen managed however to make headway from Mutukula border to Masaka by road, then covertly into the capital. Just three days after they entered the country to try and topple the Amin government, Amin's Chief Justice Ben Kiwanuka was abducted. This took place on 22nd September 1972. Suddenly several other Amin government officials also started being kidnapped. Barely a week after Ben Kiwanuka, the abduction of Amins Central Bank Governor Joseph Mubiru happened, then Amin's Makerere University Vice Chancellor Frank Lutamaguzi, then former Minister John Kalema, former minister Basil Bataringaya, and several others who had been imprisoned by Obote in 1969 but had been set free by Amin. In the three months that followed the 1972 Obote invasion, nine senior Amin government officials and top supporters had been abducted, and more would disappear in the next two years, including my late mother First Lady Kay Amin, forcefully taken from her private residence near Kisseka market in Kampala and murdered on 14th August 1974. The Obote henchmen had come with a hitlist of Senior Amin government officials and sympathisers to eliminate.

Surprisingly for the last four decades they have been saying that Amin abducted his own government.

Signed: Mr. Hussein Lumumba Amin

Kampala, Uganda

Back in 2019, I published the timeline and more compelling details about the failed 1972 invasion and the untold historic events around it. Read it here: https://www.facebook.com/212665596843/posts/10157512295166844/?a

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