ABSTRACT
A Kabaka Yekka member of the opposition, Daudi Ocheng, moved a motion in Parliament, which obote’s maneuvers had postponed for a year. Ocheng charged him with having used the army to support the insurgents in the Congolese civil war and in the process having enriched himself with looted gold, ivory, and coffee. Ocheng had alleged that Obote and his committee of four had obtained considerable quantities of gold, ivory, and coffee from the Congo. Considering that Colonel Idi Amin was at this time Obote1s trusted man in the army, any threat to remove him, such as was posed by the parliamentary motion, was also a threat to the prime minister himself. He had built the army the way he wanted it by using Colonel Amin. By the time Ocheng put his motion on the order paper for business in Parliament in January 1965, the Uganda People’s Congress was deeply and seriously divided.
