Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni yesterday narrowly escaped death when one of his bodyguards
“accidentally” lost possession of his automatic weapon which fell to the ground
and fired as the Ugandan leader was about to get into his car.
Unconfirmed reports say the bodyguard
suffered gunshot wounds after one of his colleagues shot at him believing he
was trying to assassinate Museveni who has been in power for the last 27 years.
The bodyguard was part of an elite specially-trained military unit of commandos
that is commanded by Brig Kainerugaba Muhoozi, the president’s only known son.
Gen Museveni, whose tenure has moved from
one time being the darling of the West to uneasy relationships not only with
Western leaders but also with those that he started a protracted guerrilla war
against the then Milton Obote government with in 1982 that culminated in his
seizing power in January 1986, had just addressed the East African Legislative
Assembly (EALA) at parliament in Kampala last evening and after posing for photographs
outside parliament, he was heading for his waiting car at the parliamentary
park yard when a shot was heard clearly emanating from within his security
guards.
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