Apollo Milton Obeto Obote

Milton Obote was born to a village chief in Northern Uganda in 1925. Obote was able to attend school at a protestant missionary school in Lira, Uganda, he then moved on to secondary as secondary school Busuga College. He was fortunate to attend Makerere University, there he focused mainly on his public speaking skills. Obote was expelled from school for protesting. Obote then moved to Kenya where he worked construction for a local engineering firm. Upon returning to Uganda in 1956 he joined the Uganda National Congress, which was a political party in Uganda. Obote was elected to the colonial legislative council, this would mark his first major role in politics. In 1959 his party split into two factions, Obote would head the new Uganda People's Congress (UPC). From this position Obote would be elected prime minister in 1962 of the newly independent Ugandan country. Also at this time King Mutesa became the ceremonial King of Uganda and president. As prime minister Obote was involved in many scandals, he was heavily corrupted with most of the government officials at this time. One scandal that become public was Obote's involvement in gold smuggling. Obote, accompanied by his cammander of Ugandan Armed Forces, Idi Amin were to be investigated by parliament, with the dismissal of Amin to be expected. Upon news of this Obote suspended the consitution and declared himself president in 1966. He called for a state of emergency, which allowed him to allocate power. Obote had members of his own cabinet arrested without charge for being members of the opposing political faction. Although Obote had many oppositions jailed without being charged, life for a normal citizen was the best it would be in roughly the 20 years that would follow. Obote published the "Common Man's Charter", which was his view on socialism and how he felt it would benefit his Country. Obote was against tribalism, and put in affect a government controlled system of banking and corporation ownership. Obote's power came from his military, which at this time was controlled by his friend Idi Amin. It would turn out that the two would grow apart, wich would eventually lead to Obote's exile in 1971.

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