Daily Monitor
Sunday February 28 2021
Summary
In his book Sowing the Mustard Seed, President Museveni talks about Abbasi Kibazo several times. On January 25, 1971, the day president Milton Obote was ousted in a military coup, Museveni, Kibazo and others left Kampala for exile in Tanzania because they would not be safe in Uganda.
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Abbasi Kibazo, President Museveni’s comrade-in-arms, was arrested in 1981 and has never been seen again.
Kibazo was arrested by security operatives on suspicion that he was a supporter of the National Resistance Army (NRA), a rebel movement led by former minister of Defence. On February 6, 1981, Museveni launched a military struggle against the Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) government in Luweero District and captured power five years later.
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