Son-in-law Karugire recounts awkward first meeting with Museveni

A video of the city lawyer 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.

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In the living room, he says he found the President, First Lady Janet, and his then-girlfriend Natasha.

But things turned for worse when both Natasha and her mother left the room, leaving him alone with the Commander in Chief.

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,” Karugure narrated.

“That was when I started sweating,” he added, describing this as the “longest 30 minutes of my life.”

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When the documentary ended, Museveni turned to him asking if he drank alcohol.

“But by this time I was incoherent, 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.