Former Minister in Idi Amin and Dr. Obote governments Henry Kyemba has passed on.
At the age of 84, a retired civil serviceman and senior citizen Henry Kyemba succumbed to diabetes-related complications -according to sources close to his family.
It was confirmed that Kyemba passed on under care of his daughter (Susan Kyemba) at her home in Namuwongo.
Kyemba joined the Uganda civil service on the eve of Uganda’s independence from Britain in 1962.
He was the Principal Private Secretary to then Prime Minister of Uganda, Milton Obote. Following the 1971 Ugandan coup d’etat, he joined Amin’s cabinet, rising through the ranks to become the Minister of Health (1974–1977) during Amin’s regime.
At the height of Amin’s tyranny Kyemba defected to London in 1977, where he wrote a book on Amin’s regime titled: “A State of Blood,” returning to Uganda in 1986 after the current NRM government shot itself into power overthrowing the short-lived Tito Okello Lutwa junta.
He served as Secretary of Judicial Service Commission under the National Resistance Movement government before he retired.
At the time of his death, he was a member of the Elders Forum Uganda (TEFU) which was constituted in 2015 to rally Ugandans for national dialogue.
