Idi Amin regains consciousness - Uganda cabinet to rule on his fate

The Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) ^ | July 24, 2003 | Ssemujju Ibrahim Nganda & David Kibirige

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Cabinet to rule on Amin's fate

The Cabinet will decide former President Idi Amin's fate. Mr Amin is ailing in Saudi Arabia, where he lives in exile.

His family recently asked the government to let him return and "die from home".

The Prime Minister, Prof. Apolo Nsibambi, told reporters yesterday that the Cabinet would debate whether Amin should return home, dead or alive.

Nsibambi spoke to reporters at Parliament.

According to Nsibambi, it is better for Amin to be treated in Saudi Arabia because medical services are better there.

The prime minister said that if the former president died, the Cabinet would consider his family's request.

He said that the Cabinet would then also debate whether to accord him a state funeral.

Nsibambi said that it is in bad taste to debate the former president's funeral when he is still alive.

Amin's family has, meanwhile, announced that he is improving.

His son, Mr Ali Amin, told The Monitor yesterday that Amin has regained consciousness.

"Take it from me. I have contacted the people in Saudi Arabia and they have assured me that he is greatly improving. He can recognise people and can even talk," Ali said.

Ali, who holds a Saudi passport, returned to Uganda a few years ago.

Mr Amin Mwanga and Mr Hussein Kato are at their father's bedside at the Saudi hospital.

Ms Madina Amin also joined her husband at the hospital yesterday, moments after arriving from Kampala.

Last night she called The Monitor and confirmed that the patient "has improved".

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Perhaps this 'Idi Amin in a coma' story was just a ploy for him to return to Uganda.

I figured out how the family could smuggle him back into Uganda after he is dead - carve him up and serve him for dinner. Since he weighs 485 pounds, they will have to super-size the servings. Then the family can quickly fly back to Uganda and - prepare him for burial.

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When the news came that he was dead, I suggested they should shoot him in the head a few times just to be sure.

Nobody listened to me.

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I think he should be returned only as a bag of pig feces.

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"I have contacted the people in Saudi Arabia and they have assured me that he is greatly improving. "

"Is true! Would I lie???!"

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So he really wasn't merely dead? Wasn't really, most sincerely dead?

I saw the thread over the weekend that he had died.

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He regained consciousness....so maybe he can suffer.That would be the only plus.May he rot in hell.