OBOTE SHOULD BE CURSED EVEN IN HIS GRAVE:Obote gave reasons for the attack on the palace as follows: 1.That there were arms hidden in the Mengo palace. 2.That the executive premier had disagreements with the Kabaka for wanting to attend the 1964 Cairo conference of non aligned countries as Kabaka and head of state instead of the executive premier attending. 3.That the premier had disagreed over the lost counties of Bunyoro referendum with the Kabaka. 4.That the Kabaka was interested in executive power himself. 5.That the Kabaka wanted to replace the premier with someone else. There was shame when the executive premier and government officials failed to produce the arms allegedly captured from Mengo palace. In his book written shortly after his daring escape from the palace, the Kabaka Sir Edward Mutesa II, Spoke of the guns that belonged to himself, and his guards. He listed them as one hundred and twenty rifles for his royal guards. He had three carbines, half a dozen sterling submachine guns and a similar number of automatic rifles. Meanwhile it was rumored that the Kabaka had surfaced in Ethiopia where he and Emperor Haile Sellaisse were close friends. Buganda’s Katikiro Joash Mayanja Nkangi and Buganda Kingdom finance minister Amos Sempa were declared wanted men, but their whereabouts remained unknown. Also wanted were Mr. C. Matovu, Buganda’s information minister. Mr. E.M Kalule, the speaker of the great Lukiiko (Kingdom’s legislative assembly). Later all gave themselves up to the authorities, except for the Katikiro Joash Mayanja Nkangi who was smuggled out of the country by his close confidants. The United Nations Secretary General at the time, Mr. U. Thant, in a statement said that the United Nations could not intervene to help the Kabaka of Buganda. It was a statement in response to cables about the quarrel with the executive prime minister of Uganda. The reason was because, as he put it, “it was strictly an internal matter.”
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:47:27 +0000
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