Daily Monitor
Tuesday May 11 2021
Summary
President Museveni has justified his stay in power on democracy while constitutional amendments have also given him leeway.
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When the National Resistance Army rebels took power in 1986, President Museveni reiterated the statement.
“The problem of Africa in general, and Uganda in particular, is not the people but leaders who want to overstay in power,” he said.
Mr Museveni said what they had brought was not only a mere change of guard, but a fundamental change.
He also promised to hand over to a civilian government after four years. But 35 years later, Mr Museveni is still in power.
Kibazo’s son and brother recount Museveni sympathiser’s final days
Sunday April 25 2021
Mr Ahmed Kinene Kibazo (left) and his uncle Musa Mukiibi during the interview in Kampala recently. PHOTOs | MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI | FILE
Summary
On his last day, Abbasi Kibazo jumped on a bicycle and peddled off from Magamaga in Jinja, where he had been hiding, to Kayunga District to pick up his lorry. Little did he know that he would be picked up by security operatives.
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On July 21, 1981, prominent Kampala politician-cum-businessman Abbasi Kibazo Muwejjere was arrested, never to be seen again.
He was arrested by police from Bukoloto Trading Centre, Bugerere in Kayunga District, and was detained at Kayunga Police Station before being transferred to the Nile Mansions, now Kampala Serena Hotel to face Paulo Muwanga, then vice president and minister of Defence of the Milton Obote II regime.
Daily Monitor
Sunday March 14 2021
In 1980, there was an election organised by the Military Commission government of Mr Paulo Mwanga. Mr Yoweri Museveni, the leader of Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM) then, participated in the elections as a parliamentary candidate for Mbarara North Constituency.
He lost the election to Mr Sam Kutesa, the current minister of Foreign Affairs, a member of the Democratic Party (DP) then. Earlier, Mr Museveni had announced that he would launch an armed rebellion if the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) won the elections.
The UPC won the elections. Mr Museveni did indeed launch a rebellion that five years later, enabled him to oust Gen Tito Okello Lutwa’s military junta from power. Gen Tito Okello had earlier in 1985, through a coup d’état, toppled the UPC government from power.
Daily Monitor
Sunday February 28 2021
Summary
In his book Sowing the Mustard Seed, President Museveni talks about Abbasi Kibazo several times. On January 25, 1971, the day president Milton Obote was ousted in a military coup, Museveni, Kibazo and others left Kampala for exile in Tanzania because they would not be safe in Uganda.
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Abbasi Kibazo, President Museveni’s comrade-in-arms, was arrested in 1981 and has never been seen again.
Kibazo was arrested by security operatives on suspicion that he was a supporter of the National Resistance Army (NRA), a rebel movement led by former minister of Defence. On February 6, 1981, Museveni launched a military struggle against the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) government in Luweero District and captured power five years later.
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