Daily Monitor Sunday January 03 2021 Former Deputy Prime Minister Paul Etiang (left) with Mr Museveni (centre) during the President’s visit to Tororo District in 2000. PHOTOS/COURTESY. Summary Etiang was, however, no stranger to controversy. He, in 1965 while serving at Uganda’s mission to Moscow, announced his pending marriage to a Tanzanian national, Ms Zahra A Foum. Advertisement Uganda president, Gen Idi Amin, was not in attendance but a delegation from Uganda was. With Mr Edward Heath, the prime minister of Britain, seated across the oval conference table, the head of the Ugandan delegation launched an unprecedented attack, accusing the British of racism and neocolonialism and working in pursuit of an agenda that “threatened the very foundation of their Commonwealth of nations”.