The current kabaka's predecessor was driven into exile in 1966, when Milton Obote, a northerner and at that time the prime minister, ordered the army to attack his palace.
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But then Mr Museveni, who is from a western tribe, promised to bring the present kabaka home as part of a bid to win Baganda support in the guerrilla war that brought him to power in 1986.
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