Tumukunde praises Besigye

Mar 03, 2018

Tumukunde made the remarks during the burial of Timothy Mark Kainamura Rukikaire, a son to Mathew and Sheeba Rukikaire in Kabale district.

PIC: Gen. Tumukunde laying a wreath on the casket containing the remains of Timothy Mark Kainamura

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KABALE - Security minister Lt. Gen. Henry Tumukunde has praised Forum for Democratic Change's Kizza Besigye and former state minister for privatisation Mathew Rukikaire for their outstanding support to the bush war that brought the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Government in power.

"If it was not the first aid that Besigye gave me when I was shot in the leg, I would be dead or my leg would be completely off," he said.

Tumukunde made the remarks during the burial of Timothy Mark Kainamura Rukikaire, a son to Mathew and Sheeba Rukikaire in Kabale district.

Kainamura was eulogised as innocent.

"My son has not left any possession such as certificate, wife, child or any property and did not quarrel with anybody," Rukikaire said.

Besigye honouring Timothy Mark Kainamura


The bishop of North Kigezi, Benon Magezi, thanked the Rukikaire family for looking after the Kainamura until he passed on.

Tumukunde urged leaders with ideological differences to devise means of resolving their issues them so that the country can move forward.

"How I wish to hear that Besigye, Amama Mbabazi, Rukikaire and President Yoweri Museveni have resolved their differences as key players in fighting for the peace we enjoy today," he said.

Fomer Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi promised to unveil his second move soon, urging Rukikaire to continue with the struggle to reunite the NRM liberators for the good of our country," he said.

Secretary to the treasury Keith Muhkanizi laying a wreath on the casket


On the other hand, Besigye said the history of Uganda and NRM is incomplete without the Rukaikaires.

He said the first 27 people who started guerrilla war in 1981 sat Rukaikaire's home in Nsambya, Kampala.

"Museveni and his group started the bush war at Rukikaire's, who funded them as he headed Shell Petrol Station in the whole of East Africa," he said.

"You can imagine a family which hosted rebels and supported them through keeping their ammunitions and giving them food, as well as other logistics until they finished the war, only to be forgotten soon after getting into power."

"I was ashamed to be appointed minister at 27, before Rukikaire was appointed one."

"Rukikaire was appointed minister when I was no longer minister, which was embarassing due to his contribution to the success of NRM Government.
 

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