Captain Guta Wako, long retired in military attire in a photo taken in 2013.

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   Zecharias Zelalem (zekuzelalem@dair-community.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 13:38:37 JST Zecharias Zelalem

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   General Tadesse Birru assigned four paratroopers to serve as bodyguards during Mandela's stay in Ethiopia. One of them was this man, Captain Guta Dinka, 90 years young today. Captain Guta foiled a plot to assassinate Mandela in Ethiopia. He had been approached by a turncoat, who introduced him to agents of South Africa's apartheid government in Ethiopia, who offered him 2,000£ (worth about 53k£ today) and a comfortable life in the UK if he murdered Mandela & provided photo evidence of the act.