{UAH} Amin asks for five years to organise country before holding elections Sunday, March 13, 2022 New president Idi Amin (centre) meets his troops after the 1971 coup against Milton Obote. PHOTOS | FILE By Faustin Mugabe What you need to know: The new president said he had undertaken a detailed study of the political and economic organisation of the country with a view to making necessary improvements. When Idi Amin assumed the office of President in 1971, he said he was not a politician, and was a man of few words. Amin said his was a government of action and the junta would be in office for five years, after which the army would return power to an elected government after a free and fair election. Amin became President of Uganda after the army ousted Milton Obote on January 25, 1971, while the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) leader was in Singapore attending a summit. RELATED PRIME Uganda’s hatchet men: The anatomy of torture Special Reports Yesterday PRIME Aftermath of 1975 O

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