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Uganda

Kahinda Otafiire

Date of Birth: 29 December 1950
Place of Birth: Mitooma, Western Uganda


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Muhoozi sticks his neck out

As unease in the ruling party was growing over Muhoozi's campaign in December Museveni ordered Muhoozi to sit down with the Internal Affairs Minister Maj Gen Kahinda Otafiire one of the President's oldest allies dating back to the bush war...


Museveni seeks seventh heaven

They include district chiefs of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) and loyalist politicians such as Vice-President Jessica Alupo Defence Minister Vincent Sempijja and Internal Affairs Minister Kahinda Otafiire...

Internal Affairs Minister Kahinda Otafiire's comments at a veterans' function especially rankled Muhoozi...


Age cannot weary him

Another independently-minded retired general is Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Kahinda Otafiire who fell out with Museveni and then lost his seat in Parliament after running as an independent...


Protest grows over Museveni win

Another prominent figure to lose his seat was Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Kahinda Otafiire an NRM 'historical' who was once tipped as a possible presidential successor...


The runaway gravy train

He was supported by State Minister of Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo and Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Kahinda Otafiire who wrote to the President in August warning that CHEC was not qualified...


Coup calls

Kahinda Otafiire who is Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs warned the military against any intervention...


Wars of the succession

A third leadership hopeful Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga has joined Prime Minister John Patrick Amama Mbabazi the governing National Resistance Movement Secretary General and the Justice Minister Major General (Retired) Kahinda Otafiire (AC Vol 51 No 18 Museveni’s ambitions American reservations & Museveni’s foreign policy team)...


Rebels with a cause

At the same time NRM ‘historicals’ (veterans of the 1981-86 guerrilla war) such as the Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Major General (Retired) Kahinda Otafiire are showing their anger at Museveni’s perceived favouritism towards Amama Mbabazi...


Big cabinet, bigger problems

His style had alienated party rivals not least his chief critic Major General (Retired) Kahinda Otafiire now Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister...


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