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The crowd at Yusuf Lule's, at the inauguration ceremony, Uganda. 1979.
According to the Kenyan scholar Bethwell A. Ogot, President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania had put all his support behind his friend and the former president Milton Obote to succeed Amin in 1979.
Nyerere, according to Ogot, asked Obote and the Tanzanian Defence Minister Rashidi Kawawa to fly to Masaka town and get ready to enter Kampala with the Tanzanian army should it finally oust Amin.
However, Tanzania, a poor socialist-leaning country, was finding it almost impossible to meet the $200 million cost of the war against Amin (another version later put the cost at $500 million) and appealed to its former colonial master Britain to help meet the costs.
Britain accepted but only on one condition: that somebody else, anybody, could become president but not Obote.
Furthermore, a powerful lobbying effort by Baganda in Britain appealed to the British to block the return of Obote to power. When asked whom they would prefer to become president instead of Obote, the Baganda lobby in London proposed Lule. And so it became.
So crucial was the British financial role in the 1978-79 war and to the eventual rise of Lule to power that a telling and rather embarrassing symbol was missed by the tens of thousands of cheering crowds lining the Entebbe-Kampala highway to cheer on the motorcade bringing Lule and some of his supporters like the playwright Robert Serumaga for the swearing-in ceremony in Kampala on April 13.
The president-elect of Uganda was being driven in a Mercedes limousine that bore the British flag, the Union Jack. The Uganda flag was nowhere in sight.
As we have already seen, Idi Amin in his farewell radio broadcast to Ugandans had told them that they might be praying for his impending downfall, but what they were going to get after him was a return to a colonial state with western powers determining all essential policy.
As usual, nobody listened to Amin and so here we were witnessing the ridiculous sight of the British national flag – not the Ugandan flag – mounted on the limousine of the new Ugandan President Lule, 16 years after independence.
source: https://www.monitor.co.ug/
According to the Kenyan scholar Bethwell A. Ogot, President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania had put all his support behind his friend and the former president Milton Obote to succeed Amin in 1979.
Nyerere, according to Ogot, asked Obote and the Tanzanian Defence Minister Rashidi Kawawa to fly to Masaka town and get ready to enter Kampala with the Tanzanian army should it finally oust Amin.
However, Tanzania, a poor socialist-leaning country, was finding it almost impossible to meet the $200 million cost of the war against Amin (another version later put the cost at $500 million) and appealed to its former colonial master Britain to help meet the costs.
Britain accepted but only on one condition: that somebody else, anybody, could become president but not Obote.
Furthermore, a powerful lobbying effort by Baganda in Britain appealed to the British to block the return of Obote to power. When asked whom they would prefer to become president instead of Obote, the Baganda lobby in London proposed Lule. And so it became.
So crucial was the British financial role in the 1978-79 war and to the eventual rise of Lule to power that a telling and rather embarrassing symbol was missed by the tens of thousands of cheering crowds lining the Entebbe-Kampala highway to cheer on the motorcade bringing Lule and some of his supporters like the playwright Robert Serumaga for the swearing-in ceremony in Kampala on April 13.
The president-elect of Uganda was being driven in a Mercedes limousine that bore the British flag, the Union Jack. The Uganda flag was nowhere in sight.
As we have already seen, Idi Amin in his farewell radio broadcast to Ugandans had told them that they might be praying for his impending downfall, but what they were going to get after him was a return to a colonial state with western powers determining all essential policy.
As usual, nobody listened to Amin and so here we were witnessing the ridiculous sight of the British national flag – not the Ugandan flag – mounted on the limousine of the new Ugandan President Lule, 16 years after independence.
source: https://www.monitor.co.ug/
