Why People Were Massacred in Nile Mansions During the Reign of Obote 2 in Uganda. For fear of being thrown out of power and possibly killed by the people he had imposed himself on, Uganda’s President Milton Obote spent the near 5 years of his second rule (1980-1985), as a permanent resident in a hotel-cum- prison of Nile Mansions, which his chief security adviser Major General Oyite Ojok had curved for him. Not a single day did his dear wife Miria visit him in this hideout. In the Nile Mansions, atrocities manifested with some prisoners being killed and others being released to tell the world what was taking place and to the initiators this was a tactic.