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Tito Okello
POLITICIAN
1914 - 1996
Tito Okello
Tito Lutwa Okello (1914 – 3 June 1996) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the eighth president of Uganda from 29 July 1985 until 26 January 1986. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tito Okello has received more than 425,761 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Tito Okello is the 10,225th most popular politician (down from 6,950th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Uganda (down from 4th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ugandan Politician.
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Among POLITICIANS
Among politicians, Tito Okello ranks 10,225 out of 19,576. Before him are H. C. Hansen, Nebetah, Gerard, Duke of Lorraine, Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, Abdalla Hamdok, and Bera, Count of Barcelona. After him are Odoardo
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Tito Okello: The President who was kept on his toes
By Titus Kakembo and Joel Ogwang
For Gen. Tito Okello Lutwa and his military junta, power was never a bed of roses. From the day Tito and his henchmen Bazilio Olara Okello and Col. Gad Wilson Toko toppled Dr. Apollo Milton Obote from power in a military coup on July 27, 1985, they literally remained on their toes until January 26, 1986, when they were overthrown by President Yoweri Museveni’s National Resistance Army (NRA).
In his writings, Revolution 1979-1986, Maj. Gen. Pecos Kutesa, describes the Lutwa regime as the most turbulent in the country’s history. Food supplies to the city centre were cut off; banks were being robbed, trucks hijacked, the economy was crumbling and each part of Kampala City was under the control of different fighting groups.
Museveni who had since 1981 fought against Obote’s regime refused Tito’s public calls to join the military junta and simply intensified his guerilla warfare when the Nairobi peace talks failed. Six months down, Lutwa’s regime was no more.
Early life
Gen. Tito Okello Lutw
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Tito Okello
President of Uganda from 1985 to 1986
This article is about the military officer and politician Tito Okello. For the footballer, see Tito Okello (footballer).
Tito Lutwa Okello (1914 – 3 June 1996) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the eighth president of Uganda from 29 July 1985 until 26 January 1986.
Background
Tito Okello was born into an ethnic Acholi family in circa 1914 in Namukora,[2]Kitgum District.[3]
He joined the King's African Rifles in 1940 and served in the East African Campaign of World War II. As a career military officer, he had a variety of assignments.
As a follower of President Milton Obote, Okello went into exile following the 1971 coup d'état that resulted in Idi Amin becoming Uganda's new ruler. In 1972, rebels invaded Uganda to restore Obote. Okello was one of the leaders of an insurgent group which targeted Masaka. The invasion was defeated by loyalist Uganda Army troops.[4]
Okello took part in the Uganda–Tanzania War. He was one of the commanders in the coalition betw
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