GEN TITO’S UGANDA: HOW A STATE FAILS

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On 27 July 1985, Uganda’s national army (UNLA) overthrew President Milton Obote and installed a Military Council, under the chairmanship of his own former Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Tito Okello, as the new government.
Strangely, Gen. Okello’s deputy was not a UNLA officer but a retired former Commander of Uganda Air Force under President Idi Amin. Col. Gad Wilson Toko was Managing Director of Uganda Airlines when Obote’s fall suddenly turned him into Uganda’s Number 2.
Brig. Bazilio Olara Okello, who spearheaded the coup against Obote succeeded Gen. Tito as CDF and was promoted two grades to lieutenant General.
These three and a few other top UNLA officers invited all guerilla groups to join the Military Council saying that Obote whom they had been fighting had been removed. Except Yoweri Museveni’s NRM/NRA, all groups joined the MC and peace talks with NRM began in Nairobi.
Unfortunately, the MC government was a “union of irreconcilables” and the closest thing to a failed state. There were frequent rumours of attempted coups and defections and arrests and infiltrations, which would send jittery Ugandans fleeing the city to the villages.
It became too much that in September 1985 the Military Council arranged a press conference at the state-owned Uganda Television (UTV) to dispel the rumours. You are about to see it.
After this first part of the story of Uganda after the July coup but before Museveni’s arrival, you may wonder whether a brutal Obote regime was not better than Tito’s deadly conglomeration of irreconcilable armed groups.

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