The death of Uganda’s first Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Affairs, Eriya Kategaya, 70, has split Ugandans, especially members of the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM). Kategaya died last Sunday in Nairobi based hospital.

But some members of the ruling party, some opposition politicians and members of the general Ugandan public ask for the reasons why the late Kategaya was not taken to Europe for treatment and why president Museven and the first family are quiet over the matter.

Some Ugandans along the streets of Kampala have been overheard as saying that ‘president Museveni was not happy with late Kategaya as the deceased was opposed to lifting up of presidential term limits for president Museveni to rule for life.’

Critics allege that president Museveni never fully forgave the deceased and perhaps suspected that Kategaya was equally very opposed to the first family’s reported maneuvering to see Museveni’s son Muhozi Kainerugaba becoming president of Uganda.

Mulindwa Warid Lubega, opposition activists in Kampala wonders how Museveni’s government could fail to take Kategaya to Europe yet the same Museveni can afford to take his daughters to German just to give birth.

Kategaya died of “blood clots” which is the same condition that affected Mrs Clinton last year. Doctors say that blood clots can not kill anyone after diagnosing it in European and some good Asian hospitals.

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