Pecos kutesa biography sample

His book titled Uganda’s Revolution How I saw It reveals a lot about his character, mindset and philosophy.

Joining the bush

Firstly, much as he holds number RO , he only joined the NRM in April but had been a soldier since  His enlisting in the army was even a personal matter after feeling the wrath of Idi Amin soldiers in

“I wanted to punish them for they had mistreated me.

Initially, I went to join to learn how to use a gun. So, I also wanted to go learn how to shoot and that’s how I left to join soldiering,” he says.

Kutesa would later join the UNLA force after Amin’s ouster in but still, he felt there was no sense of belonging in the new army.

“The deployment itself shows you what was going on. When we returned from Munduli [where the cadet training took place], those who felt were not affiliated to the Kikosi Maalum were put in far-flung places so that Kampala remains occupied by their ilk so that the election goes as they wanted,” he points out.

UNLA was a combinati