A good Muganda is a dead one – Milton Obote?

The above statement will go down in Ugandan history as the most controversial and offensive ever made. Did the later former president Milton Obote ever make such a statement? If so where? If not, who did? The answer will surprise many Ugandans.

In this special report, never-before-published detail and analysis are presented into the origins of the most notorious statement in Ugandan history.

The statement, “A good Muganda is a dead one”, further stirred up great anger toward Obote among the Baganda and was a factor in rallying armed Baganda opposition to the second UPC government after 1980.

Obote consistently denied ever uttering or writing that statement. UPC officials have at various times issued challenges for anybody to provide proof that Obote made the statement and if so, where he might have made it.

Already Obote was a much-resented national figure in Buganda following the stand-off between the central government and the Buganda kingdom in May 1966. Read More