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DECEASED: Wapakhabulo |
By Alfred Wasike & Milton Olupot
SECOND Deputy
Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, James Wapakhabulo has died.
Wapakhabulo, President Yoweri Museveni's roommate in Dar-es-Salaam
University, Tanzania in the 1960s, died of breathing difficulties and
other complications in the chest. Wapakhabulo born on March 23, 2003
"His health deteriorated recently and was flown to London for
treatment. He has been on bed rest since he returned. He has been under
medical supervision by Dr Ddumba. He had actually improved. We are all
shocked," a visibly shaken Lydia Wanyoto, one of the East African Assembly
delegates and a relative told The New Vision.
Mourners
converged at his Plot 11 Young Avenue, home in Bugolobi where he died at
about 4pm on Saturday. Wanyoto said that Wapakhabulo, her uncle had been
on medical leave prior to his death.
Wapakhabulo chaired the
Constituent Assembly from 1994 and 1995. He later was the Speake r of
Parliament. In 1998 he was appointed National Political Commissar.
After 1998 elections he was appointed Third Deputy Premier and
Minister for tourism, wildlife and antiquities and later foreign affairs
minister. He was one of the longest serving ministers since the National
Resistance Movement came to power in 1986.
He returned >From Papua,
New Guinea, near New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean where he lived in exile
with his family in 1987.
Wapakhabulo, a lawyer, served in the
archipelago of islands as Principal Legal Officer from 1986 to 1987.
Before that he was a Senior Legal Draftsman from 1977 - 1979.
Details to follow
Published on: Saturday, 27th March, 2004
The Mulindwas Communication
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"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est
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