Former Prime Minister and ex- ruling party member, Amama Mbabazi has promised to honour Uganda’s famous dictator Idi Amin by building a museum in his memory.
Mbabazi challenging long term President Yoweri Museveni in the upcoming elections slated for February 18th. He made the pledge to the people of Amin’s ancestral home in the northwest of Uganda, hosted by the former dictator’s uncle.
“one of the critical building blocks” of the party was “reconciliation” to help “the process of forgiveness for any real or perceived wrongs in the past” that once divided according to Mbabazi’s spokesperson Josephine Mayanja-Nkangi
Amin died in Saudi Arabia in 2003 while in exile after being overthrown in 1979.
Museveni, believed to be at least 71, and who took power in 1986 after Milton Obote and Tito Okello were toppled, is eyeing a fifth term in the elections.
According to AFP, Mbabazi is the second presidential candidate to vow to repatriate Amin’s remains and erect a museum in his honour if he wins. Abed Bwanika, a three-time election loser who garnered less than one percent of the vote in 2006 and 2011, made the same declaration during a campaign visit to Amin’s homeland.
“Amin is very good for our tourism in Uganda,” Bwanika told AFP. “Let’s have his remains here, so tourists who just hear about him can actually come and see where he was born and bred.”
Amin had multiple children, and some of them are believed to be running as parliamentary candidates
