Former First Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community affairs Eriya Kategaya is to be laid to rest on Thursday at his ancestral home in Ntungamo District, according to a tentative programme released by Information Minister Mary Karooro Okurut.
Kategaya died on Saturday at Nairobi Hospital in Kenya at the age of 67 and his body was flown back to Uganda on Monday morning.
Parliament on Tuesday convened to pay tribute to the fallen Patriot who was instrumental in the liberation of Uganda alongside Uganda's current President H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Earlier in the day, the public got a chance to view the body of the former East African Minister who many described as a "Man with a clean and clear record".
A requiem mass will follow on Wednesday at All Saints Cathedral, Nakasero. The body will then be transported to his home District of Ntungamo for burial on Thursday.
Kategaya has been honored by several people from across the country and the East African region. Among them is Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki.
“To everyone who knew him, and had the opportunity to work and interact with him, the late Eriya was well respected as a humble man of outstanding ability,” President Kibaki said.
In Kampala, his family spoke of a loving and honest patriarch who never involved himself in primitive wealth accumulation for self-aggrandisement. “I am very proud of the life he led; not involving in any corruption. I walk on the streets and no one points a finger at me or any of my siblings that your dad misappropriated government money; that makes me very proud of him,” Ms Annette Kategaya, the late premier’s first-born, said in an interview.
Kategaya, one of the longest-serving ministers, has ended his life and career with a reputation free from graft allegations as is the burden for most of his peers.
| The late Eriya Kategaya. |
Parliament on Tuesday convened to pay tribute to the fallen Patriot who was instrumental in the liberation of Uganda alongside Uganda's current President H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. Earlier in the day, the public got a chance to view the body of the former East African Minister who many described as a "Man with a clean and clear record".
A requiem mass will follow on Wednesday at All Saints Cathedral, Nakasero. The body will then be transported to his home District of Ntungamo for burial on Thursday.
Kategaya has been honored by several people from across the country and the East African region. Among them is Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki.
“To everyone who knew him, and had the opportunity to work and interact with him, the late Eriya was well respected as a humble man of outstanding ability,” President Kibaki said.
In Kampala, his family spoke of a loving and honest patriarch who never involved himself in primitive wealth accumulation for self-aggrandisement. “I am very proud of the life he led; not involving in any corruption. I walk on the streets and no one points a finger at me or any of my siblings that your dad misappropriated government money; that makes me very proud of him,” Ms Annette Kategaya, the late premier’s first-born, said in an interview.
Kategaya, one of the longest-serving ministers, has ended his life and career with a reputation free from graft allegations as is the burden for most of his peers.
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