By Stephen Akabway Jr
During the time Prof Yusuf Lule Kironde was the president of Uganda, he left for abroad and designated Gen Yoweri Museveni as an acting president.
One day when Museveni was driving himself on his way to his government house in upper Kololo, he encountered an armed gang along Lower Kololo road.
The armed gang and the acting president exchanged gunfire and the latter ended up cutting down all of them, signaling his sharp shooting prowess.
Because of the violence and blood he had witnessed during the above-mentioned encounter, a newsman, Frederick Gureme would later on tell Museveni that he would never ever again share a ride with him.
Museveni, David Oyite Ojok and Paulo Muwanga would later on plot Prof Yusuf Lule’s ouster, who had earlier on designated Museveni as an acting president in his absence.
Reportedly, the trio were directed by Tanzanian leader, Julius Kambarage Nyerere to use his guns he had given to Prof Lule’s government to remove him from power.
Nyerere had previously provided arms and troops who had removed Idi Amin Dada from power and replaced him with Prof Lule.
The same Nyerere would later on tell Museveni, Oyite Ojok and Paulo Muwanga to use his guns he had given to his administration and remove Godfrey Lukongwa Binayisa from power and whom he had replaced Prof Yusuf Lule with.
Binayisa’s removal was triggered by his refusal to promote Major Oyite Ojok worsened by his reckless appointment of Oyite Ojok as an ambassador.
Oyite Ojok had led the war which had removed Idi Amin, culminating into Binayisa’s presidency and yet here was a certain Lukongwa Binayisa belittling a whole liberation war hero.
Definitely, Nyerere couldn’t let a dependable commander of a friend Dr. Milton Obote to suffer fools at the hands of a little known Binayisa.
Fundamentally, Prof Lule and Binayisa had just merely been used by President Nyerere to ease and pave a way for a friend and a confidant, Dr Milton Obote.
President Yoweri Museveni would later on launch a guerilla war against Dr Milton Obote, Oyite Ojok and Paulo Muwanga, ending into their ouster.
But Oyite Ojok was not in government by the time their government was upstaged since he had died in a plane crash during an operation he had launched to catch Museveni alive in the bushes of Luweero. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
