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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. | 
