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Take a listen at the Ugandan president Museveni interestingly narrate how this technically illiterate man who was a mere herds boy, made it to the Ugandan army in which he rose to the rank of a brigadier general that he currently holds, despite being a class 4 dropout who can't even properly articulate himself in English.

The man is brigadier General Joram Kagyezi, and according to President Museveni, he was recruited into the army when he was just a little boy, during the bush war of early 1980s, when Museveni's National Resistance Army fighters were fighting to overthrow President Milton Obote.

Museveni narrates that Brigadier General Kagyezi was recruited because he had exceptional traditional guerilla warfare skills, especially in setting up traps in the jungle, and played a very crucial role when the National Resistance Army fighters raided the Kabamba Military Barracks in the famous Battle of Kabamba, with the aim of capturing the armoury to start a rebellion against the post-Idi Amin government of President Milton Obote.

That, after an earlier failure to capture the armoury in the ambush of the barracks on February 6th 1981, in which a single Tanzanian soldier defended the armoury, preventing the rebels from capturing the bulk of the weapons that were stored underground, General Kagyezi, whom Museveni himself had recruited into the rebel group because of his skills was used in the January 1985 to detonate a modified landmine that Gaddafi had given Museveni's rebel group into the armoury, killing a pro-Obote Ugandan soldier who tried to defend the armoury, like how the Tanzanian soldier had done in the earlier raid of February 6th 1981.

Everything went as planned, and courtesy of the illiterate herdsboy, museveni's fighters gained access to the armoury and took away with around 650 guns that they used in the guerilla war that ultimately saw Museveni become the president of Uganda.

It should be noted that following the 1979 Uganda-Tanzania War, which saw the overthrow of President Idi Amin, a contingent of the Tanzania People's Defence Force remained in Uganda to maintain security and assist the new Uganda National Liberation Army, and that is how that one brave Tanzanian soldier found himself in the underground armoury of Kabamba military barracks and held off Museveni's fighters on February 6th 1981.

However, the Tanzanian troop's presence in Uganda became a point of contention for various Ugandan rebel groups including that of Museveni, and the Battle of Kabamba together with the mounting pressure from the ongoing insurgency and the economic cost of maintaining troops in Uganda ultimately led to the final withdrawal of Tanzanian soldiers from mid 1981, leaving a security vacuum that fueled the Ugandan Bush War that ultimately gave Museveni the presidency.