President Museveni will today visit the home of the former Chief of Defense Forces and Minister for internal affairs, the late General Aronda Nyakairima in Buziga, Kampala to commiserate with the family, the president’s press secretary Ms Lindah Nabusayi says.
Mr Museveni who was on a four day official visit in Japan by the time of Aronda’s death flew back to the country on Sunday evening.
“Yes the president will visit the late General Aronda’s family on Monday and commiserate with them at 11:00am ,” Ms Nabusayi said.
The Internal Affairs minister was found dead on flight aboard emirates plane over the weekend.
Ofwono Opondo, the executive director of Uganda Media Centre, said a flight attendant discovered Aronda had died when he could not wake him up for breakfast. The cause of the unexpected death is yet to be established.
Aronda was returning from the South Korean capital, Seoul, where he led a government team to explore acquisition of equipment for the national Identity card project. In his entourage were Ms Judith Obitre-Gama, the national Identification and Registration Authority executive director, the authority’s board chairman John Kasenene and the Information Technology director Clet Turiyo.
All were on the same flight, according to officials. The General’s body has reportedly been taken for embalming at a police hospital in Dubai.- Monitor
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