Kampala, (UG): Henry Kyemba, the former minister of State for Animal Husbandry in the NRM government, and Health Minister during Idi Amin’s government has died at 84 years.
Mr Christopher Katagwa, a family member who confirmed Kyemba’s demise revealed that he succumbed to diabetes-related complications last evening (Wednesday) at her daughter’s residence in Namugongo, a Kampala City suburb, where he has been staying.
“Mzeeyi (Kyemba) has had a lifetime diabetic problem which has been his major disease, and of late he has gone so low and had changed, that is why he was not in circulation,” Mr Katagwa said in a brief statement on Thursday morning.
He added that burial arrangements for the late Kyemba will be communicated but his final send-off is expected to be at the family’s burial grounds in Wanyama Village, Bugembe Ward, Jinja North Division, Jinja City.
Henry Kisaja Magumba Kyemba was a Ugandan retired political figure who held several high positions and finally became Minister of Health during Uganda’s rule by Idi Amin.
He served in that post from February 1974 until May 1977, when he fled into exile.
Apart from being a minister, Kyemba also held several high positions, including Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Culture (1972), Principal Private Secretary to President Milton Obote and State Minister for Animal Husbandry in the early years of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) regime among other positions.
According to Mr Katagwa, Kyemba was the last of seven boys born to the late Mzeeyi Suleiman Kisadha, a colonial chief in Mayuge District and Sasana Babirizangawo.
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