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Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 12 2021
The Cabinet ministers in the picture above of Idi Amin’s cabinet resigned, were axed or summarily killed except for a few well placed ones. The honeymoon enjoyed by the Cabinet after the coup of January 1971 did not last long.
On that Cabinet list above, my quick review indicates that only Edward Rugumayo is alive. Rugumayo was one of the few who sent a resignation telegram to Amin from Nairobi, which was candid to the dot. By the end of January 1972, it is recorded that Rugumayo wrote (in part):
“I found it increasingly difficult to fulfill my duties in the atmosphere that prevails in my country. I wish you the courage to preserve life; the wisdom to know that man cannot create himself at will; the knowledge to understand that man’s mission here on earth (including yours) is to preserve, and prolong life; and to understand that what we do today will determine the destiny of the nation tomorrow, and posterity will judge us by our