The Minister of Internal Affairs, Maj Gen Kahinda Otafiire, has eulogized fellow bush war veteran, Gen Elly Tumwine, who succumbed to cancer in a hospital in Nairobi on Thursday.
Tumwine fired the NRA’s first bullet, one that launched the 1981-86 liberation war. Otafiire is one of those who interacted with him during their days in the bush, and he describes him as a man who loved authority and was prayerful.
“Our biological past will inevitably catch up with us. What is important is how we leave. Have we invested enough in politics after us so that when we leave the contribution we made to uplift the quality of life of people is maintained? “asked Otafiire while appearing on NTV this morning.
He added, “I would like Gen Elly Tumwine to be evaluated objectively. To be put under scientific scrutiny. To be approved for what he did and for us to criticise what we believe he did wrong. “
On those ‘celebrating’ Tumwine’s death on social media, Otafiire said it’s okay for people to express their feelings.
“People share their feelings on social media. There are those who, in his (Gen. Tumwine’s) exercise of power, got disappointed with him. That is the hallmark of government. Those who were prevented from doing what they wanted to do feel angry,” he said.