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WAKISO – President Museveni has said the late Dr Andrew Kayiira was a huge stumbling block to the National Resistance Army bush war effort.
He said the late freedom fighter made unrealistic promises that pitted Baganda against non-Baganda fighters.
“He was disturbing us so much in the bush. He would come in our area of operation and excite people by promising them Kabakaship and other things you all know,” Museveni told Wasiko residents at the district headquarters this week.
Museveni said by making such promises, Kayiira was demoralising non-Baganda fighters and making the success of the war more complicated.
“You talk of the restoration of Kabakaship in a force which comprises of people like Bakiga! These people don’t know about your Kabaka,” Museveni said.
Museveni said he told Kayiira that their primary aim was to capture power together and later see who gets what.
“Whether one would get Kabaka or not was a small issue. Getting [Milton] Obote out of power was the primary target,” Museveni said. Kayiira, who was gunned down by unknown assailants on March 7 1987, was the head of the Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM) that fought the Milton Obote’s regime alongside the NRA – under Museveni.
His death has remained a mystery since.
An investigation by Scotland Yard Police did little or nothing to unravel the mystery.
Kayiira was a strong advocate of a federal system of governance for Buganda.
The NRA, now UPDF, was the military wing of the National Resistance Movement, which ousted the Tito Okello Lutwa military junta in 1985. | 
