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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Entebbe Airport, February 13, 1976: Two Kenyan girls from Makerere University are heading home as Idi Amin\u2019s reign of terror on Kenyans reaches new heights.<\/p>\n

Esther Chesire, a second-year law student, is 22 and so is her friend, Sally Githere. With their air tickets, some luggage and passports, the two girls go through the immigration protocols and are waiting to board the East African Airways flight EC629 to Nairobi. The girl-talk, perhaps animated, was quickly broken when officers from Uganda\u2019s State Research Bureau, Idi Amin\u2019s terror squad, approached them and demanded to see their passports.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollow us,\u201d the girls were told by the mean characters. The officers seemed to have interest in Ms Chesire, who came from a prominent family that was close to Jomo Kenyatta\u2019s vice-president Daniel arap Moi. \u201cAre you sure you are a student at Makerere?\u201d The officer prodded Ms Chesire. It was a period when being framed as a spy was a capital offence. \u201cWe are going to find out,\u201d the officer said, according to the Washington Post. As Ms Githere, who was present during the questioning, would recount later, they were asked to sign some papers. She was then put on the Nairobi bound plane while her roommate was left behind.<\/p>\n

Ms Chesire, perhaps not realising the danger, told her friend that she would catch the next evening flight. She didn\u2019t and \u2013 despite threats of war \u2013 she has never been found.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post reported that her brother, Reuben Chesire \u2013 then chairman of Kenya Farmers Association and Kenya Tourist Development Corporation, had business dealings with Amin. But Reuben denied the paper\u2019s claim saying he had \u201cabsolutely no business contact with Uganda\u201d and that his sister did not know Amin.<\/p>\n

Read: When Kenyan military was a dwarf among several giants<\/p>\n

The tale of Ms Chesire is the story of a populace that cheered the rise of a tin-god and how a nation, once applauded as the Pearl of Africa, descended into zealot levels. Though ex-President Milton Obote was hated and had terrorised Ugandans before he was deposed, the Kampala populace cheered on Idi Amin as he established institutions of terror. The first was the State Research Bureau \u2013 the outfit blamed for Ms Chesire\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n

During the Obote rule, this outfit was known as the General Service Unit and was notorious for silencing critics. Then, after the 1971 coup, Idi Amin, with the help of Israelis, dissolved the GSU and formed a new military intelligence agency through a presidential decree. It was named State Research Centre and, despite its misleading name, it was supposed to collect and sieve intelligence from its Nakasero Hill headquarters. The other notorious outfit was Public Safety Unit, an instrument of spying and repression also financed by Israel, which was building a new armoury for Idi Amin.<\/p>\n

Esther Chesire as a 22-year-old university student when she disappeared.<\/p>\n

The relationship between Amin and the Israelis was deep. It is now known that on the morning of the January 25, 1971, when Obote was deposed, the British High Commissioner to Uganda, Richard Slater, had found Amin working under the guidance of Israeli\u2019s Col Bar-Lev, a Mossad operative in the region. Actually, Amin\u2019s first trip abroad was to Israel where he met with Prime Minister Golda Meir.<\/p>\n

That State Research Centre became the State Research Bureau after Amin fell out with Israelis over a row about sale of fighter jets to Uganda. From then, State Research Bureau was transformed into a terror squad \u2013 a gang of murderers and extortionists. Nobody, apart from Idi Amin, was beyond their reach. And when they walked to the two Kenyan girls, everybody was worried about their fate.<\/p>\n

Read: How Jomo Kenyatta tackled major crises during his days at the helm<\/p>\n

State Research Bureau had its regional equivalents. Kenya had the dreaded Special Branch, led by James Kanyotu, which operated various \u2018safe houses\u2019 and some mini torture chambers. The best known locations were Kingsway House, during the Kenyatta era, before Nyati House and Nyayo House became bastions of terror. Ethiopia\u2019s Mengistu Haile Mariam had his own Central Investigation Organ, which had its own network of prisons and courts, while Somali\u2019s Siad Barre had his Defence Security Agency, locally known as Hangash, and whose powers overlapped those of National Security Service (NSS).<\/p>\n

While several Kenyans had disappeared in Uganda, including the June 1974 disappearance of freedom fighter Kungu Karumba, that of Ms Chesire triggered more diplomatic uproar. It also coincided with Idi Amin\u2019s territorial claim on Kenya.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo other issue has bothered this office like this one. Why they are keeping her there is not known. It is very unkind to her parents,\u201d said Dr Munyua Waiyaki, Kenya\u2019s Foreign Minister who was pursuing the matter.<\/p>\n

Until late March, 1976, the Uganda government had insisted that Ms Chesire was safe in custody and that investigations were still going on. Initially, the \u201csoldier-boys\u201d \u2013 as Dr Waiyaki used to call them \u2013 had told him that the girl \u201cwas happy and was being questioned.\u201d<\/p>\n

But when Kenya went public about Miss Chesire\u2019s disappearance, the Uganda military spokesman sent a statement to Radio Uganda and attacked Kenya for \u201cdisclosing\u201d that Miss Chesire had been arrested and detained. The statement asked the Kenyatta government to \u201ckeep quiet and concentrate on their own problems\u2026they should refrain from involving the Uganda government (whose) record is clean, especially on human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bulletin further warned Kenya against making \u201cunfounded allegations\u201d saying: \u201cWe are tired of unfounded political rallies in Kenya against Uganda. We are not cowards (and are) not interested in replying to malicious and unfounded charges. The Uganda government has no knowledge of any girl who is alleged to have disappeared from the university.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read: Diplomatic collisions that shaped foreign policy<\/p>\n

It was a lie. The military spokesman then hoped to shift the blame: \u201cThe spokesman wishes to clarify that the girl in question and the other Kenyan students have been going to Kenya regularly without the consent of the university.\u201d It was at this point that President Amin set up a commission of inquiry led by Brian Langlands, a British-born professor of geography at Makerere University, to investigate Ms Chesire\u2019s disappearance alongside her classmate Paul Sserwanga.<\/p>\n

Dr Waiyaki had hoped he would handle the issue at the diplomatic level. But Kampala played rough diplomatic games and refused to respond to Dr Waiyaki\u2019s letters as stipulated in international diplomatic policy. The commission of inquiry was Idi Amin\u2019s trick to buy time. But Dr Waiyaki did not relent. He continued to put pressure on Uganda government as Kenya announced the closure of its border.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the soldier-boys now speaking and they are telling us to mind our own business,\u201d a frustrated Waiyaki told the media in Nairobi.<\/p>\n

Hope was that the Langlands\u2019 commission might unravel the truth about Miss Chesire\u2019s disappearance. One of the witnesses to the inquiry was mathematics professor, Mrs Nanziri Mukasa-Bukenya, the Warden of Africa Hall, a women\u2019s residence hall at Makerere. As she prepared to appear before the Langlands\u2019 Commission, some officers from the State Research Bureau knocked on her door. They demanded that her testimony should paint Ms Chesire as a person of immoral character who must have fell victim of one of her jilted lovers. An incorruptible character, Mrs Mukasa-Bukenya refused to provide false testimony. A day before she testified, on June 23, 1976, she was abducted by unknown people and her lifeless body later found floating in Ssezibizwa River with her hands still tied behind her back. She had a gunshot wound on her head.<\/p>\n

Three days later, on July 26, Brian Langlands, the chairman of the commission, was expelled from Uganda and thus did not get to the bottom of Ms Chesire\u2019s disappearance. A new submissive chairman was appointed and on November 12, the inquiry concluded that Ms Chesire had left for Kenya and that \u201cif university rules had been followed, no-one would have been shot.\u201d It was a contradictory report. It did not inquire into the death of Mrs Mukasa-Bukenya.<\/p>\n

As the crisis between Kenya and Uganda continued, another Kenyan student was beaten up and ended up at Mulago Hospital and later at the university sick-bay before being discharged. This was my good friend, Nation columnist Magesha Ngwiri, then a second-year literature student. Magesha owes us a story. Perhaps \u2013 a book on Idi Amin and Makerere.<\/p>\n

Most of the Kenyan students who suffered under Idi Amin were part of University of Nairobi exchange programme, which allowed them to study in Uganda. Amin was, by then, the Chancellor of Makerere University and amidst this crisis, he would be awarded an honorary doctorate degree whose citation read: \u201cField Marshal Amin has restored law and order, contained armed robbery and made Ugandans live their lives free of fear.\u201d It was a lie. On the Makerere University website, the university says Amin \u201cconferred upon himself the Doctorate of Law of Makerere University.\u201d<\/p>\n

The confrontation between Kenya and Uganda not only heightened the tension between the two countries \u2013but also tells us the folly of having a dictator and a criminal in power.<\/p>\n

Idi Amin was a lesson to Africa \u2013 and Ms Chesire\u2019s disappearance remains one of the painful memories of a young innocent girl, caught in the eye of regional politics and dictatorship.<\/p>\n

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