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Message: <blockquote data-quote="feed" data-source="post: 6677547" data-attributes="member: 142900">1966 - Following a financial  scandal implicating      Obote and Amin in gold smuggling, and on the back of growing  opposition from King      Mutesa, Obote suspends the constitution, arrests half his cabinet,  and installs      himself as president for life. King Mutesa is driven from his palace  in a military      operation led by Amin and forced into exile. A new constitution  abolishes all      the country's kingdoms.    Amin is subsequently promoted to major-general and appointed chief  of the      army and air force. He begins to build a support base in the army by  recruiting      from his own Kakwa tribe. However, his relations with Obote start to  sour.    1969 - In December an  unsuccessful      attempt is made to assassinate Obote. Brigadier Pierino Okoya, the  deputy      chief of the army and Amin's sole rival among senior army officers,  tells      Obote and Amin that the net is closing in on the perpetrators and  that      all will be revealed at a second meeting scheduled for 26 January  1970.    1970 - On 25 January  Okoya and his      wife are shot dead at their home. Relations between Obote and Amin  deteriorate      further following the murder. In November Obote removes Amin from  his      command positions and places him in an administrative role.</blockquote>

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