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Daily Monitor
Monday December 21 2020
On the eve of Uganda’s Independence in 1962, thieves broke into the embassies of the United States of America and several other foreign missions, but this was a strange kind of robbery. The only valuables they made off with were the flags of those nations.
The attacks were coordinated by Ally Muwabe Kirunda Kivejinja, a member of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC) youth wing, who at the time was also a secretary at the party’s research bureau.
“After getting the certainty that the Ugandan flag was to be hoisted… Some of our youth clandestinely moved to the American embassy and the embassies of all nations that we considered to be enemies of Uganda and stole their flags,” he said.
Daily Monitor
Sunday December 13 2020
Exactly 40 years ago this week, Uganda held the first multi-party elections after getting rid of Idi Amin and, the last free and democratic elections where political parties freely competed with no incumbent occupying and controlling privileges of State by force.
The elections, held on December 10, 1980, saw Uganda Peoples Congress return with massive majority of 61 per cent.
In those elections, Uganda Patriotic Movement (UPM), the parent organisation of NRA-NRM, won only one parliamentary seat out of a possible 126 and its leader, Yoweri Museveni, lost in Mbarara North, won by DP’s Sam Kutesa. UPC came second.
During elections, Mr Museveni freely campaigned around the country without being whipped or tear-gassed, nor did families lose loved ones.