First NRA soldiers exhumed
THE Army will today exhume for reburial the remains of the National Resistance Army’s (NRA) second Army Commander, 2nd Lt. Sam Magara, who died in 1982 during the war against Milton Obote’s government. Magara was buried in a secret location in Kampala.
By Alfred Wasike
THE Army will today exhume for reburial the remains of the National Resistance Army’s (NRA) second Army Commander, 2nd Lt. Sam Magara, who died in 1982 during the war against Milton Obote’s government. Magara was buried in a secret location in Kampala.
To mark this year’s Tarehe Sita, the army day, the army commander, Lt. Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, announced yesterday that the remains of another NRA commander, Martin Mwesiga, which was exhumed yesterday, would be reburied.
The reburials are among other activities to mark the annual Army Week that ends on February 6, the day the NRA launched the guerilla war against Obote in 1981.
Mwesiga was at Kyamate Primary School with President Yoweri Museveni in the 1950s, studied with him at Dar-es-Salaam University, became a lawyer and joined Museveni in the anti-Idi Amin crusade in 1972. He was killed in 1975.
“On February 4, the Commander-in-Chief (Museveni) is to rebury the remains of the first NRA commanders. Magara and Mwesiga will be reburied in Kashari,†Aronda said yesterday at the UPDF home, Bombo.
The first NRA commander, Ahmed Seguya, died of a liver problem in 1981. His body was embalmed and secretly kept at Mulago Medical School until November 30, 1990 when it was buried in Mukono.
On February 3, the UPDF will clean up Mulago Hospital and other hospitals around the country.
Aronda said on February 5, Museveni would lay wreaths at Kyamusisi in Mubende district for soldiers who died in the struggle. Museveni will commission an armoured warfare training school at Kabamba. He said he will also break the ground for the air defence school at Butiaba.
THE Army will today exhume for reburial the remains of the National Resistance Army’s (NRA) second Army Commander, 2nd Lt. Sam Magara, who died in 1982 during the war against Milton Obote’s government. Magara was buried in a secret location in Kampala.
To mark this year’s Tarehe Sita, the army day, the army commander, Lt. Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, announced yesterday that the remains of another NRA commander, Martin Mwesiga, which was exhumed yesterday, would be reburied.
The reburials are among other activities to mark the annual Army Week that ends on February 6, the day the NRA launched the guerilla war against Obote in 1981.
Mwesiga was at Kyamate Primary School with President Yoweri Museveni in the 1950s, studied with him at Dar-es-Salaam University, became a lawyer and joined Museveni in the anti-Idi Amin crusade in 1972. He was killed in 1975.
“On February 4, the Commander-in-Chief (Museveni) is to rebury the remains of the first NRA commanders. Magara and Mwesiga will be reburied in Kashari,†Aronda said yesterday at the UPDF home, Bombo.
The first NRA commander, Ahmed Seguya, died of a liver problem in 1981. His body was embalmed and secretly kept at Mulago Medical School until November 30, 1990 when it was buried in Mukono.
On February 3, the UPDF will clean up Mulago Hospital and other hospitals around the country.
Aronda said on February 5, Museveni would lay wreaths at Kyamusisi in Mubende district for soldiers who died in the struggle. Museveni will commission an armoured warfare training school at Kabamba. He said he will also break the ground for the air defence school at Butiaba.