FUNERAL SITE: Firewood for the anticipated wake below a tree in Amin's
compound
BY ALFRED WASIKE
IN SPITE of reports that former president Idi Amin is emerging from a coma in a
Saudi hospital, his relatives in Arua are preparing for a massive funeral.
Sunday Vision has been shown a spot that the family has earmarked for the
president's grave. It is right next to the grave of Amin's elder brother, Ramathan,
who died last year.
Worried family members and volunteers at Tanganyika, a largely Muslim village
some three kilometres north of Arua town, have been gathering firewood on the recently
manicured compound of the eight-bedroom house Amin started building in 2001 in
preparation for his return to Uganda.
Groups of women clad in Islamic hijab have been seen frequenting Amin's compound
where they sit waiting for news about the former dictator. They are constantly tuned
to the radio, especially the BBC.
"Since the news broke that president Idi Amin was very ill and might die of high
blood pressure and other complications, we have waited for President Museveni to allow
him return home. Even if he lives for only 30 minutes and then dies, that will make us
very happy.
It will also make him very happy because he has wanted to return home for a long
time," one of Amin's younger brothers, Captain Kivumbi Amule, 56, told Sunday Vision.
Amule was a fighter pilot in the defunct Uganda Air Force.
"Let the Government allow my brother to be brought back home. I know him because
I grew up with him. He never committed any crimes. His wish to return home should be
fulfilled. That is why he has put up these two houses in Arua and Koboko. He even
installed a tap from which villagers collect free water. He wants to return home and
that is what we also pray for," Amule said.
While president, Amin often said that he knew the exact day when he would die.
It is not clear whether he is the one who has told the relatives that his moment had
come.
Museveni said last week that Amin will not get a state funeral if he dies but
that his body can be returned home for burial.
On Tuesday, one of his wives, Madina, and a daughter flew to Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, at government expense.
Amin's doctors refused to disclose details of his illness.
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
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