----Original Message Follows---- From: "gook makanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ugnet_: Professor Binaisa Admits Abrogating Constitution Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:14:53 +0000What a pity nobody remembered to ask him:
1. why he resigned as his supposed constitution was being debated in the Consitituent Assembly
2. the legalities of the proposition of a constitution by a government whose legal life had expired and the subsequent 'ratification' of that constitution by a parliament that was unelected by the people (but by dictator Obote)?
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--- Begin Message ---Professor Binaisa Admits Abrogating Constitution
By Anne Mugisa
For the first time since leaving power, former President Godfrey Binaisa has admitted responsibility for abrogating the 1962 constitution in 1966.
Prof. Binaisa, who was the then Attorney General, said he had to avert the brewing blood shed and a military take over by Idd Amin, the then feared Army Chief-of-Staff.
He said he wrote the 1966 pigeon hole constitution with Kamba Mugerwa and Koffi Cran, both Ghanaians.
�Faced with the 1966 events, I had to keep the citizens and foreigners from harm,� Binaisa said.
�I offered a solution. I told Dr. Obote that it was the only thing to do to save the country from military take over. I kicked out all the Ugandans from the office and let the Europeans handle it so as not to leak it. That constitution saved this country. I think I did a good job,� Binaisa added.
Binaisa was reacting to Justice George Kanyaihamba�s assertions in his book �Constitutional and Political H! istory of Uganda,� which was re-launched on Saturday.
Kanyeihamba said Binaisa abrogated the Constitution.
Up to now, nobody had taken responsibility for the 1966 pigeon hole constitution which saw the monarchies in Uganda abolished and the country�s titular president, Kabaka Frederick Mutesa, exiled.
Binaisa, however, denied that his action was intended to abolish the monarchy.
EndsPublished on: Tuesday, 29th October, 2002
Gook
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