Bush War Veterans Leave Disappointed as Museveni, Saleh Snub their Meeting

Some of the Luweero Triangle veterans who had come to meet Museveni and Saleh. Photo by Aggrey Twesigye/Crooze FM

Bush war veterans from the Luweero Triangle left Mbarara City cursing and disappointed after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his brother Gen Caleb Akandwanaho aka Gen Salim Saleh failed to show up for a meetING they had been expected to be part of.

The veterans had endured a long journey from Luweero Triangle districts to meet Museveni and Gen Saleh so as to discuss their issues such as welfare, government support and how they can tap into government programs.

The meeting, which was supposed to happen on Sunday, November 24, had been organized by a one retired Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) retired Captain David Bashaija.

The Luweero Triangle veterans were supposed to meet Museveni and his younger brother at the former Ngabo Academy in Mbarara City.

The veterans had hoped to present a petition to the president detailing what issues they would like him to work on to improve their situation.

Several thousands of people fought or helped in other ways as Museveni fought to remove Apollo Milton Obote and other leaders from power between 1981 and 1986. Museveni had lost the 1980 presidential election and chose to go to the bush.

In Luweero Triangle, the epicenter of the bush war, hundreds of thousands of lives were lost.

Once in a while, Museveni honors civilians or military officers who contributed to the bush war efforts. Museveni recently honored a Catholic Sister who saved his daughters from being harmed by Obote soldiers, as reported Here.

At the moment, one of the most important people in Museveni’s bush war, his former personal doctor and one who treated injured fighters, Dr Kizza Besigye, is in prison following his abduction from Kenya. Besigye faces charges of possession of guns and allegedly negotiating to disrupt peace in Uganda.

In still to be confirmed leaked classified audios, a man said to be Besigye is heard negotiating for arms with a foreigner, talking about a divided army, links in the airforce and of an unserious Bobi Wine, as reported Here and There.

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