Museveni presides over 39th Tarehe Sita celebrations in Nakaseke

President Yoweri Museveni is in Nakaseke district where the Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) is celebrating its 39th anniversary.

Nearly four decades ago, he led a group of young fighters of the National Resistance Army (NRA) in an attack on Kabamba military barracks in Mubende on February 6, 1981.

However, contrary to reports that the attack sparked off the liberation war that gave rise to his ascent to power five years later during a rocky period in the country, Museveni has since noted that the struggle had long started before that eventful day.

For example, while marking the 37th Tarehe Sita, Mr Museveni said the attack on Kabamba was not the first action but one of the subsequent efforts in the liberation struggle.

The late Mozambican revolutionary and military commander Samora Marcel and fallen Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere are said to have been the first to help Ugandan liberation fighters in the 1970s.