On 25th January 1970, the commander of the army’s Second Infantry Brigade, Brigadier Pierino Yere Okoyo, and his wife Anna Akello Okoya (In despot Museveni’s famous killing style) were shot dead outside their home at Layibi, just outside Gulu town by unknown assailants. 

Okoya had been one of the most vocal in criticizing the then army commander Idi Amin for conspiring and fleeing the scene of a 19th October 1969 assassination attempt on President Obote at Lugogo in Kampala. Little did he know that calculative intriguous   Museveni knew that killing Okoya would inevitably bring the blame on Amin and he would use the situation to mark his steps as a mighty leader in the future. 

The bullets which killed Okoya and his wife came from the GSU Mbarara barracks and Museveni had been an intelligence officer there with plans to find a path to the top government sit. The cunny but treacherous Museveni knew that he was supposed impose himself amongst his peers by killing a general to command fear. 

Acholi’s hate for despot and dictator Museveni is not of today. They still nurse the pain and the wound of how their own late Brigadier general Yere Okoyo who was murdered in the cold blood and that it was not a plan of Amin or Obote.  One doesn’t need to think too much of how they will celebrate the day that cancer stricken leader of Matooke Republic will be gone for good.