Ugandan former president Apollo Milton Obote will receive a monthly allowance of 2.1 million shillings (about 1,225 US dollars) after returning home from exile, the state-owned weekly Sunday Vision reported.

Former head of state Obote is expected to return home on May 27from exile in the Zambian capital of Lusaka for the last 20 years.

According to the Presidential Emoluments and Benefits Act, Obote is also entitled to a fully furnished house, a chauffeur-driven car, four security guards plus transport for them, a personal secretary, and two domestic staff.

The report said, Obote will also receive 20 million shillings (about 11,668 dollars) from the state to furnish his retirement home, and 10 million shillings (about 5,834 dollars) every after five years, to replace this furniture.

The ageing statesman will also be getting 300,000 shillings (about 175 dollars) every month for his treatment and that of his immediate family.

Obote, as a prime minister of Uganda, received the instruments of power for Uganda from the British colonialists in October 1962.

Obote was sworn in as president in April 1966 but overthrown in a coup led by army commander Idi Amin in January 1971, then he fled to Tanzania where he stayed in exile until 1980.

Obote became president again after the Uganda People's Congress(UPC) won the national elections in December 1980. He was ousted in a military coup in July 1985 and fled to Lusaka where he has been living in exile.

The 81-year-old Obote is happy with the on-going arrangements by the UPC for him to return to Uganda, according to James Rwanyarare, chairman of the advisory committee of the party.

Source: Xinhua