If you were the Clock Tower …

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The Kampala flyover project is underway and it will include removing the Queen's Clock Tower which has stood in that place since 1954. New Vision entered the ‘brains' of the monument and brings you what it saw.

Apparently, the Clock Tower doesn't want to go without telling its story. Get yourself a copy of the New Vision this Friday and see what this monument has seen over the times.

It will include a narrative of its birth to commemorate the first official visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Uganda in 1954. A year later, it was the Kabaka return from exile, later Pope Paul VI on his first ever visit to black Africa and Emmanuel Nsubuga returning from Rome as the first-ever Cardinal in Uganda.

On Obote, the memories stretch to the extreme. From his wedding to his Muganda wife Miria Kalule, to his clashes with the Kabaka, attack on Mengo, and fall to President Idi Amin

On Amin, it has fond memories of his safari rally days and unfond memories of firing squads.

It was there as Kampala fell to the invading Tanzanians, it welcomed Professor Yusuf Lule, Counsel Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa, Afande Paul Muwanga and Apollo Milton Obote in that succession of presidency.

The tower reveals what it saw during the second overthrow of Obote in 1985, the battle for Kampala when Yoweri Museveni attacked and the aftermath of Museveni's reign.

It is surely an emotional fare thee well, you shouldn't miss.

All in New Vision, this Friday