Yesterday our reporters attended the book launch “betrayed by my leader” written by Hon. Maj. John Kazoora, a former NRA guerrilla war combatant now turned opposition.

The author is currently the Forum for Democratic Change’s (FDC) secretary for defence and security.

Maj. Kazoora is also former Member of Parliament for Kashari County in Mbarara district (1996-2006).

The book was launched by Retired arch -Bishop of Kampala diocese Bishop Zac Niringiye. The book talks about his biography and family, and how he joined the armed struggle to topple Milton Obote administration in 1982.

 It also talks about how president Museveni deviated from the trend and he (author) certainly joined the reform agenda in 2001.

Reform Agenda started by the dossier Dr. Kiiza Besigye then National political commissar when he issued a dossier in which he challenged the method operand of the NRM and the excessive powers of the president which Besigye recommended that should be reviewed and regulated by due structures and this caused a lot of arguments.

The book says that during the UPDF high command, it was resolved that Dr. Besigye be court martialed for his errant characters but in defiant of this threat, Dr. Besigye took the bull by its horns by contesting the much coveted 2001 presidential elections after retiring from the army. Kazoora continues to point out his NRA colleague Hon. Capt. Fred Mwesigye now Nyabushozi county MP who challenged him very much in 2001 parliamentary campaigns to retain his Kashari county seat when Mwesigye claimed that Maj. Kazoora never took part in the NRA guerrilla war.

But fortunately Maj. Kazoora won back his Kashari seat and even to demystify this claim in his book there is a photo where both of them were in military uniforms during their bush war days. Back to the launch, the function was attended by many former bush war comrades as well as other guests like FDC outgoing President Col. Kizza Besigye, UPC President, ambassador Olara ottunu, retired supreme court judge, justice George William Kanyeihamba, FDC Vice President in charge of Western region, Col. Nuwe Amanya Mushega, Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu, Yona Kanyomozi, Brig. Henry Tumukunde, Martin Wandera, MP Abdul Katuntu, Hon. Phillip Wafula Oguttu, Hon. Salim Angoliga were among the dignitaries that graced the function.

Bishop Zac Niringiye who launched the book talked of the sectarianism engineered by president Museveni that has breed the narrative that the Banyankole are a problem to this country as perceived by large segment of people.