Besigye reveals first fallout with Museveni

KAMPALA.
In Part II of extracts from the book Kizza Besigye and Uganda’s Unfinished Revolution by Daniel Kalinaki, the book narrates the beginning of Dr Kizza Besigye’s first disagreements with President Museveni during the bush war days over injustices and favouritism between the fighters.

Besigye further tells of how these injustices and favouritism continued and even raged higher when the National Resistance Army/Movement (NRA/M) came to power in 1986, culminating in the eventual full-scale political fallout between the two former Bush War comrades.

Besigye cites a case in 1989 when President Museveni helped his young “unqualified” relative to take up a big job at the then Coffee Marketing Board despite protests from the senior management officials.

The book gives a vivid account of how Besigye’s attempt to stop the President’s inexperienced relative from taking the prestigious job landed him in trouble with the President who chased him away at a meeting in State House.

In this part of the series, the book also traces the beginning of corruption under the NRM government.