The Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Frank Tumwebaze, has said the fallen former Minister of Security Elly Tumwine was not on earth to please anybody.
His remarks followed comments from Ugandans on social shortly after the death of the bush war heroes, saying he made very many reckless statements during his tenure in the office as security minister.
Journalist Sudhir Byaruhanga said Tumwine might have made statements that angered many people especially after the Kampala shootings during presidential campaigns, but it doesn’t take away the fact that he was a liberator.
Commenting on the matter,Tumwebaze said ‘We are not on earth to please people. Populists too have those they displease. We are on earth to do what is fair and correct. Gen Tumwine did exactly that,”
He explained that the deceased was never a populist.
In 2020 as the country headed for the general election, Tumwine said that the police and other security personnel had a right to kill protesters if they are attacked.
Tumwine said that he had no apologies for anybody who was killed while attacking security forces as they tried to put down protests that broke out during that period.
Several towns especially in the Central region had erupted in chaos after learning of the arrest of National Unity Platform, Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine in the eastern region district of Luuka.
The deceased said that people who staged the protest aim at making Uganda ungovernable like some countries such as Libya.
Tumwine was pronounced dead on Thursday morning from Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was airlifted recently.
He was one of the 42 people armed with 27 guns who attacked Kabamba barracks to launch the NRA protracted war that five years later in 1986 would usher the current government to power, after leaving his teaching career in 1978 to join the FRONASA forces led by president Museveni.
According to president Museveni,the former Security Minister and NRA bush war hero, died of lung cancer.