{UAH} WHAT WAS THE LIFE IN LUZIRA PRISON WHEN PETER SIMON OKURUT WAS IN CHARGE OF KAMPALA? Part one

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To put this entire piece into perspective you need to understand that Peter Simon Okurut at the time, was in charge of Uganda government. Now after that statement, I need you to look at Luzira prison. Many Ugandans actually lose sight at a simple question, what was happening in Luzira prison after the fall of Amin and Peter is in charge? It is what I am addressing this morning. So you have the David Oyite Ojokes in Nile Mansion, Acholi gangs in Kampala with guns, Yusuf Lule a useless punk in State House, and Rwandans like Allan Barigye walking the Kampala streets, what exactly was the life in Luzira prison? Let us walk to  Luzira this good Toronto morning.

 

After the Kampala fall you had so many Uganda Army officers, Police officers, Prison officers State research officers and so on that simply wanted to go to their offices to report for work. The incoming punks had absolutely no plan of command continuation, there was no instruction to the old guard at how to be turned over to the new command, there was actually no command infrastructure, as there was no order to them to how to report.  They had so much military equipment for I remember even John Dole was handed a military fatigue  and a couple of weapons for we were at war. So how would he report when there is no place to report? Kampala fall created a new scenario that the Tanzanians were fighting the war, as UA was retreating, so who exactly was in charge was it Oyite Ojoke, was it Mugushuri, was it Nyerere or Yusuf Lule the punk?

 

Now a situation happened very immediately that the incoming Okuruts had no firkin clue how to handle the takeover, the John Doles made a very quick decision to cross into Kenya and report to an organized system, their specific question was very simple, how do we report to our offices? Who exactly do we report to? They sat in Kisumu police station and handed in their entire hard ware and it was a good hard ware. Kenya government undermined them by lying to them that they had talked to the Okuruts, and the Okuruts wanted them returned to Uganda, The John Doles said fine we are going home for we have nothing to hide. Buses and buses were sent in and they were driven home directly to Luzira. It was very fascinating for a moment, for one of John Dole's drivers was the one that actually drove the bus in which John Dole was sitting. Full respect but as they were heading into Kampala, still there was simply no direction of what is happening to them let alone where they were heading. The buses arrived to Luzira and these full talented people walked into jails and handed a full wing.  

 

It was a mixture of all of them but because they worked in the same government they knew each other, some knew who had promoted them, and some knew who commanded them, it was a mixture of all of them, police prison army military police. Due to that back ground, prison officers started to get the messages out to the families of who had been repatriated to Luzira, but there was no word from the Okuruts. There was so much infight in Kampala so much power hunger that these talents meant squat at the time. After a couple of weeks, Andrew kayiira walks in for he was the minister of internal affair thus in charge of the Luzira prison, he made a speech of about five minutes and it was very simple, all of you Iddi Amin's soldiers are killers, I am going back to Kampala to talk to president Yusuf Lule, so that he signs a death sentence to all of you and you get killed. That was it and he was driven out.

 

And here was the danger of that speech, in as much as Acholi were Coons on streets, Andrew Kayiira was supposed to be the cream in that government, he was American trained and a criminologist that should know the law, thus should have known that such generalization was never going to sell. Andrew Kayiira was a punk probably worse than Jonan Luwum. At that time we had started to go to Luzira and visit them, for prison officers were licking information as an old sponge, and many in their high ranking we knew by their faces. They had no clue what was in Kampala and they did not know who was in charge let alone what is going to happen. To Andrew kayiira the group responded very candidly, no kid ever refuses to go home, if you want to send us back to our maker we are good to go, set up the date. The order never showed up for Lule was wiped out of office and Kayiira lost the ministry all together. The John Doles remained in Luzira.

 

Another problem walked in, that as Acholi were on streets screaming every one that served in Amin's government is a killer, they started to attack and kill soldiers police officers even prison officers actually. It stared to look more clearer that it is safer to actually bring in yourself, so they picked up their uniform, their warrant card, and weapons and started to report to police stations. Here I am I hold this rank and here is my weapons, police stations drove all of them to Luzira. So that bunch all ending up into Luzira built the prisons number way high, and all not charged and all not absorbed back into the force. Remember the entire Uganda Army was just disbanded.

 

Part two will continue from here Insha Allah (أَن يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ)

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