Wise guys stay home
Ever since Nkrumah, to the general relief and good of all, was caught on a hop African leaders have thought twice or thrice about leaving base. Sierra Leone's Siaka Stevens thought it inexpedient to go to Singapore and decided to stay at home. Presumably Dr Obote wished he had done so—although the Singapore betting was on a Zambian coup.
It remains to be seen whether the coup against Obote has to do with King Freddie's mysterious death in 1969 here in London, but certainly the Kabaka's Buganda people never forgave Obote for his seizure of the presidency from the King back in 1966. There is of course tribal friction—in this case chiefly between the Bantu tribes (in- cluding Obote's own Langi) and the Nilotics in the army and the police.
Even by African standards, the condition
'At the next strike it will be 25 per cent'
of the Ugandan treasury is deplorable. The Auditor-General's last report, unpublished in Uganda for obvious political reasons, showed for example 'unauthorised ex- penditure' of over £2 million—a matter possibly of some concern to Britain, who supplies Uganda with over £3 million in financial and technical aid.
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