We Ugandans have been talking a lot about the late Brig Noble Mayombo and how he died, and if he was poisoned or if it was a natural cause from sickness. There has been speculation about why he was killed if at all he was killed and was not sick.

Radio Katwe has taken a hard look at the whole situation and we want to throw some light on it. Sometimes when you want to understand something which looks hard at first, you have to go back in history. Things do not just happen like in magic.

This is the first part of a special report at what happened to Mayombo. We shall take you back to the man and his life and then you can conclude for yourself what happened to him.

Mayombo was born on April 9, 1965 to the Rev. James Rwabwoni a canon of the Anglican Church in Fort Portal. His father during the Kololo Airstrip memorial service said his son was always stubborn and wanted to be different from other people.

When he was in Nyakasura School for the first part of his secondary education he was one of those who led a students strike in 1981 and the school administration headed by the headmaster Mr. Solomon Kajoro decided that he was too stubborn and dangerous to come back for S.5 even if he passed well.

Mayombo was naturally brilliant and he passed through school with flying colors and without repeating any class. But even though he passed in the First Grade he could not return to his favourite school Nyakasura because of his rebellious record there. And that is how he ends up going to Ntare School for high school in S.5 and S.6.

He again passed his high school UACE exams with flying colours and was admitted to Makerere University School of Law.

Mayombo had not lost his stubborn rebellious nature and in his very first year at Makerere in 1984, he again took part in a strike. Many Ugandans will remember when Makerere students had a general strike during that year. It was about allowances or something like that.

Then in 1985 he absconded from Makerere and joined the NRA guerilla force under Yoweri Yoswa Museveni which had camped in western Uganda. If you have a good memory, you will also remember that when the NRA took power in 1986, Mayombo is the young officer who proposed Museveni's name to be the president of Uganda.

He returned to Makerere University and his law studies in 1988 but was still in the army as a Lieutenant officer. He used to try to recruit Makerere students into the army at that time.

He contested for the guild elections against Norbert Mao in 1989 and after a hot competition Mao emerged victorious.

Mayombo was back in the army after Makerere and his bright career took off. He impressed many people in the Constitutional Assemby (CA) in 1994 with his brilliant arguments and charisma. He was the youngest NRA delegate to the CA and people could see a rising star.

When Museveni saw this, he decided to take him on his personal staff. That was the time he became Museveni's ADC. That was when problems started. You see in other more civilized governments it is an honour to be the aide de camp to the president. Sometimes you will find that the ADC is a Brigadier or a Colonel. It is supposed to be a respectable poistion of very high trust in the government.

The problem is that Museveni is a man who does not follow institutions and who rules as if he is a small god. He sometimes has a very backward mentality and thinks his ideas and ways are always the best. So he spoilt everything.

When you are Museveni's ADC you do not just stand behind him and hold his bag or pass his messages around or what have you as other ADCs do.

For Museveni an ADC is a personal servant. In fact you are made to do things which it is even hard to imagine. You personally shine his shoes, if his shoe laces open by accident you tie them, you bring him his toothbrush if he cannot find it and wait until you hear this, you even help him to bathe!

If you think that Radio Katwe is exaggerating you go and ask anybody who knows Museveni and how State House works. For sure they will tell you that we are right on this one. When Museveni is taking a bath, you the ADC are there to assist him. Those ADCs of Museveni who you see smartly dressed standing behind him are the ones who bathe him. Ask and if anybody tells you otherwise we shall publicly apologise. But we have crossed checked from several different angles and come to the same information.

Museveni is not disabled or so weak that he cannot do his bathroom duties by himself. Maybe the man feels that he is too important, or he just wants to subjugate others, we don't know. But to our best knowledge, this is the fact.

At Museveni's house in Rwakitura and Kisozi ranch, Museveni keeps staff there to look after him in even the smallest things. He keeps a young girl at Rwakitura to look after his needs. After a long day at Rwakitura, he will remove his shoes and sit in his chair. The young girl comes with a basin and washes his feet. She can sometimes cut his toe nails or maybe his finger nails. This may not be so bad in itself. The problem is the mentaility of the man behind it.

We are told that he once said that he feels that as a big man some things should be done by "these chaps" so that he keeps his mind on big things like the East African Federation! Though if this is true, good observers will see that even when he thinks so hard, more negative effects like a lot of stealing public money, the government is so corrupt that it can barely function, daily scandals etc. happen

So that Mayombo you saw there used to bathe Museveni. Mayombo was too shocked and dismayed when he was told that this is part of his ADC job description.

That time when he tied Museveni's shoe lace and Ugandans were praising him for being loyal and humble, they did not know that Mayombo deep down inside was boiling with anger and humiliation. Those Ugandans who were praising him about his loyalty should start thinking more seriously about things before talking. If it was you, would you like your picture to be shown to the whole world tying another mans shoe laces? Anybody can see that you don't have a man who is so brilliant, proud and ambitious like Mayombo to become like a slave waiting on you hand and foot! People who are so smart make the worst slaves.

It was the most shameful day of his whole life. The guy was a proud character because of his brilliance and because he came from the royal clan of the Batooro who are called the Babiito. These are the people you hear of in Toro who have names which sound like Acholi names like Olimi, Oyo, Winyi, Okwiri, etc, etc. The royal line of the Batooro of the kings and queens is the Babiito line.

They are the same Babiito of Bunyoro and as royals they are like the Bahiima of Ankole or the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi. If Uganda was a more peaceful developed country, Mayombos family line could have almost the same prestige as the House of Windsors of the UK. So these are proud people.

You will remember last week even when he was praising Mayombo, Museveni's son Major Muhoozi Kainerugaba said that one time Mayombo joked with Muhoozi telling him that doesn't Muhoozi know that Mayombo is a brigadier and a Mubiito?

You can see that being a Mubiito was something to be proud about for Mayombo and for a person of the royal clan to be seen in public tying the shoe lace of anybody was a scandal and too humiliating. Can you imagine someone from the royal clan of Buganda bending down to tie another persons shoes in public?

Somebody should check and send us the date when Mayombo tied Museveni's shoe lace. If you have a picture the better. You will understand more later but we are empahsizing that day because it was the day that Mayombo completely changed and became so hostile to Museveni.

Knowing Mayombos history and his character will help you understand better what happened next. The independent character which was always questioning authority and made him take part in strikes in school and rebel against Obote's government by joining the NRA struggle was humiliated. That was the day Mayombo started to hate and despise Museveni.

Because now his humiliation had become public, not only in private.

In part 2 coming soon, we shall continue with this story of Mayombo and how he systematically started to plot against Museveni and what he did next.