Yoweri Museveni has joined a long list of Ugandans paying tribute to the late Lt. General Onesmus Pecos Kutesa by saying that he was a man who loved reading novels.
President Yoweri Museveni has joined the list of many other Ugandans to eulogize the late Lt General Onesmus Pecos Kutesa saying that he was an individual who fell in love with reading novels.
“Pecos liked reading novels!,” Museveni tweeted in support of the fallen general describing him as a great friend who was also a very intellectual and a brave man.
Kutesa was laid to rest on Sunday at his ancestral home in Kabura, Lyantonde district. He died on Tuesday in India where he had travelled for a liver transplant.
Sources indicated that Kutesa now late was hospitalized in India where he had spent over four months in a coma having been diagnosed with liver necrosis-an acute damage of the liver.
Speaking about his death, Museveni who was quick to trace his friendship with late Pecos Kutesa to 1979 when they both joined the struggle against then-President Idi Amin said he remembers four things about him.
“When I went to Monduli Academy to address Ugandan Officer Cadets, there were two very brown young people in the group of 300 that stood out on account of their complexion; Pecos & Hannington Mugabi. Mugabi died in the bush, at Kitema Masanga, shot by a colleague, accidentally,” Museveni said.
“When we attacked Kakiri UNLA detachment on 6/04/81, as the assault from the East of Kampala – Hoima Road was going on, standing near one of the shops, I saw Pecos crawling in the typical military way, to capture the Heavy Machine Gun (HMG) the UNLA had fled and left alone.”
In addition, the president said the deceased was part of the people who escorted him to Kenya where they met the former Libya President Col. Muammar Gaddafi who gave them few guns and ammo to use in their struggle to oust the old regime.
“That was the reason I selected him to, along with Suicide, accompany me when I, on the 6th of June, 1981, crossed Lake Victoria in a 25 horsepower engine boat to Kenya, on my way to meet Muammar Gaddafi who gave us the few guns and ammo we got from outside,” Museveni added.
“He also took part in the battles of Masindi (20th of February, 1984) and Kabamba (1st of January,1985) as well as other battles of encounter, like the one of Mataba swamp, near Kyajinja.”
