Uganda’s Internal Affairs Minister Gen. Aronda Nyakairima has died.
He has died of cardiac arrest on a plane from korea to Dubai.
According to the Director of Immigration at the ministry of Internal Affairs Geoffrey Sasaga, Gen. Aronda had travelled on official duty and was in a health condition.
The ministry of Internal Affairs also announced on the social media networks his death but said details would follow later.
“We regret to announce the death of Gen. Aronda Nyakairima who has been Minister of Internal Affairs” reads the statement from the Internal Affairs Ministry.
According to the Twitter handle of Special Forces Command (SFC) Commander, Brig. Muuhoozi Kainerugaba he said “I am extremely saddened at the untimely passing of our long time commander and leader, General Aronda Nyakairima. RIP.”
Whos is Gen. Aronda Nyakairima
According to Wikipedia, He served in the army before joining Cabinet of Uganda as Minister of Internal Affairs in 2013. Previously he was Chief of Defense Forces, the highest military rank in the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF). And it is under him as CDF that Uganda was pacified of internal wars and the last being the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) of Joseph Kony.
Nyakairima was born July 7, 1959 in Rukungiri District. He attended Kitgum High School in Kitgum District. He joined Makerere University in 1978, graduating in 1981, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in political science. He attended the Basic Officers Course in 1989, after the NRA had captured power in Kampala, Uganda’s capital city. He later attended a course in Strategic Studies at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, USA. He also has further military qualifications from the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo.
He joined the National Resistance Army in 1982, soon after leaving Makerere. After the NRA captured power, he worked as an intelligence officer in the Ugandan military. He later was appointed Assistant Director in the Directorate of Military Intelligence in the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF).
He was then transferred to the Presidential Protection Unit as an Intelligence Officer. From there, he served as the Commanding Officer of the Armored Brigade before his appointment as Commander of the UPDF in 2003. He has represented the UPDF in theUgandan Parliament since 1996.
In October 2010, General Nyakairima was inducted into the International Hall of Fame at the Lewis and Clark Centre at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, United States of America, for attaining the highest position in the military of his country.
Nyakairima, a 1993 graduate of Fort Leavenworth, was inducted together with General Eui Don Wang of South Korea, a 1986 graduate of the command college, and Major General Richard Rhys Jones of New Zealand, a 1992 graduate.
Nyakairmina was appointed to the cabinet as Minister of Internal Affairs on May 23, 2013. Gen. Katumba Wamala was appointed to replace him as Chief of Defence Forces on the same day.
