KAMPALA – Uganda’s First Deputy Prime Minister, Eriya Kategaya is dead. According to reports, the 67-year-old died Saturday early evening in Nairobi, Kenya.
Minister Kategaya was one of the longest serving cabinet ministers in Uganda.
His reported death, which occured at Nairobi Hospital, comes against a backdrop of a flurry of public concern about his health.
Born July 4, 1945, the fallen minister also served as Minister for East African Affairs by the time of his death.
Speaking on phone to state media Saturday evening, information and national guidance minister Mary Karooro Okurut said governement regrets the death of Kategeya.
She said: “He has not been well. He had been hospitalized. We shall feed you with details.”
He was taken ill earlier in January with an unconfirmed ailment and was later shifted to Nairobi Hospital following consultations with his personal doctors.
Also a lawyer, Kategaya was active in the political spheres of the country since 1975, until his reported death on Saturday.
Growing up in western Uganda, the fallen politician was a long-time associate of current president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, spanning back from their school days in Ntare School in the early 1960s.
He later pursued and attained a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Dar-es-Salaam in neighboring Tanzania.
Details surrounding his death are yet to be known.
Survived by a wife and children, he is said to be one of the longest serving cabinet ministers in Uganda’s politcal history.
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