While thousands of mourners, including Tanzanian leader Jakaya Kikwete, joined President Museveni on Monday to bid farewell to his father, Mzee Amos Kaguta, who passed away on Friday last week, the former president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Col. Kiiza Besigye and the current FDC president, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu did not bother to go for the burial or to send their condolences.  Museveni’s political friends like president Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Salva Kiir of South Sudan at least sent him condolence messages.

Most of the mourners kept on watching all the corners to see whether Museveni’s former allies Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu and Col. Kiiza Besigye would keep their political differences aside and join Museveni while he mourns his father. Late Kaguta was buried at President Museveni’s ancestral home in Rwakituura, Kiruhura District.

Besigye says that he did not attend the burial of Museveni’s father because no one informed him about his death. Statehouse sources when contacted confirmed that they forgot to inform the leaders of political parties about the death of Kaguta. Also, the news coming from Muntu’s camp indicates that he too was not officially informed about Kaguta’s death. However, another source in FDC told Walakira Nyanzi of the Ultimate Media Consult that he would have attended the burial but he feared to go there because people would have thought that Museveni and Muntu are the same. Muntu is a former friend of Museveni who turned foe.

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