RE: ugnet_: Ibingira on Obote's Secret Wars and Abuse of Office

[Owor Kipenji]

If you have already gone 6 miles to get the truth why on God's good

earth stop instead of going the full 9 miles and get that which you have

already set out to prove?.

I hope you are not being intellectually dishonest and now you want to acquire knowledge passively.

Thanks.
Kipenji.

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Ed Kironde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Mulindwa and all

This is in reference to Obote giving Mandela a passport as alleged or stated as fact.

I am asking these questions just to learn, not refuting the allegation.  Having said that, Obote, I believe gave Mandela a passport in his capacity as Prime Minister of Uganda, Mandela was accused on two counts, that of inciting persons to strike illegally (during the 1961 stay-at-home) and that of leaving the country without a valid passport. 

Mandela’s trial started when Obote was in office for one week [from October 15 to November 7^th 1962, when Mandela was sentenced to 3 years].  The reason I am asking, Mandela also mentions Obote (as Ugandan Prime Minister) among a number of African leaders he met, and mentions Kaunda, Oginga Odinga and Joshua Nkomo as distinguished African nationalists.

Here is the question:  When did Obote give Mandela the passport [and I thank him for that] and if he traveled through other African States, of which he says that they were showered with hospitality and assured of solid support, was newly independent Uganda the only one with relaxed immigration rules?  Mwai Kibaki, as a young Kikuyu, the Kenyan government could not give him a passport, the Ugandan government, not an individual like in Mandela’s case, gave him a travel document to pursue studies in England.

I seek to be educated on this one.

 

I will give a link to anyone interested in Mandela’s first court statement

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