By Frank Kamuntu
A video of the famous and most celebrated city lawyer Edwin Karugire narrating this harrowing experience which happened in the late 1990s recently surfaced and went viral online.
In the video, Karugire described the meeting with the president as a “daunting task” that kept getting worse.
In the living room, he says he found the President, First Lady Janet, and his then-girlfriend Natasha.
The President, he said, was watching a World War II documentary in silence.
“But luckily, I had practiced my presentation; I had my script memorized, so I started talking. But he raised his hand and told me to first be quite as he was watching the documentary,” Karugire narrated.
“That was when I started sweating,” he added, describing this as the “longest 30 minutes of my life.”
When the documentary ended, Museveni turned to him asking if he drank alcohol.
“But by this time I was incoherent, and dehydrated, so I gave him all the possible answers at once. I said something like, ‘I don’t…I used to…but I am stopping….!
Museveni then started lecturing him about how alcohol makes people unconscious, and how he had never been unconscious, which kept him strong.
The President even challenged Karugire to a duel, to prove that he was stronger than him.
“But I politely declined,” he said.
Karugire and Natasha have been married for 24 years.
Known affectionately as Kukuru (or little grandma) by her father, Natasha is the second born of President Museveni and his firstborn daughter with Janet.
Born in 1976, she married Karugire, who served then as the President’s Private Secretary in 2000.
Their wedding was graced by some big names in Africa, including Aysha M. Al Gaddafi, the daughter of the former Libyan president- Muammar Gaddafi.
