Former minister Henry Kyemba has succumbed to diabetes-related complications aged 84.
Christopher Katagwa, a nephew, says Kyemba passed away yesterday evening in Namugongo, a Kampala City suburb, where he has been staying under the care of his eldest daughter identified as Ms Susan Kyemba.
According to Katagwa, burial arrangements will be communicated in due course; however, what remains certain, is that he will be laid to rest at the family’s burial grounds in Wanyama Village, Bugembe Ward, Jinja North Division, Jinja City.
Kyemba held several high positions, including Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Culture (1972), minister of health during President Idi Amin’s regime, 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.
