“You Can’t Compare Museveni With Amin – One Is Hell – Another Is Heaven” Museveni’s Minister

The Minister for Information, ICT and National Guidance Dr Chris Baryomunsi has lambasted those comparing the regime of President Museveni with that of Idi Amin Dada, insisting that one can not compare heaven and hell.

While delivering his weekly briefing on cabinet decisions at the Uganda Media Center, Dr Baryomunsi said Museveni is synonymous with the restoration of a democratic dispensation while Amin was complete hell.

“There were no elections ( in Amin’s regime) no what, you can not compare the two. It is like comparing hell and heaven.”

The Minister was elaborating on Museveni’s rejection of the Amin Memorial Institute, adding that the NRM will not sanitise Amin’s history.

“Government cannot participate in glorifying heinous acts of Amin. Museveni came with guns and later sanitized it with elections” He Said.

Museveni vehemently rejected a proposal from former Obongi County MP Kaps Fungaroo to set up and license a memorial institute to study Amin’s exploits. According to Museveni, Uganda should have nothing to do with Amin’s history, it is just enough that Ugandans have forgiven Amin and his colleagues.

One of the most infamous and ruthless regimes in Ugandan history, Gen. Amin’s reign still looms large over the collective memory of the country.During his tenure in the 1970s, a large number of Ugandans are said to have died or disappeared, and his dictatorship is accused of grave violations of human rights.

Amin’s name is still linked to despotism and tyranny.One noteworthy effort to commemorate Amin’s era came from Kaps Fungaroo, the former Obongi County MP, who sought a license for an institute dedicated to the memory of the former President.

However, upon hearing of the request, Gen. Museveni vehemently rejected it, arguing that Amin’s government was illegal and Amin himself was an unconstitutional leader.

Museveni also maintains that Amin committed so many atrocities including killing Acholi and Lango soldiers in Mbarara and prisoners in Mutukula prison, not forgetting Ben Kiwanuka, and Basil Bataringaya.

“We do not have to talk Amin destroying the Ugandan economy by his ignorant expulsion of our Indian entrepreneurs that went away to enrich Canada and the United Kingdom,” Museveni Said.

“Therefore, it is not acceptable to license an institute to promote or study the work of Amin. It is enough that the forgiving Ugandans forgave the surviving colleagues of Idi Amin. Let that history be forgotten,” He Decreed.