Daily Monitor
Sunday January 17 2021
One of the first messages I received on New Year 2021 was from a friend, Dr William Worodria, a senior consultant at Mulago hospital. He texted to inform me that, “Retired ambassador Paul Orono Etiang has passed on at IHK of Covid-19.”
I was shocked by the sad news and remembered my last encounter with Etiang on December 14, 2020, at Rubaga Cathedral where we had gone to attend a requiem mass for our colleague and good friend, William George Naggaga (RIP).
Paul Etiang was my boss, mentor and friend for many years. He was a distinguished career diplomat, gentleman, statesman, patriot, pan-Africanist and a devout Christian.
Etiang Was A Patriotic Cadre, Says Museveni
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Museveni eulogises ex-deputy PM Etiang
Wednesday January 06 2021
Speaker Rebecca Kadaga lays a wreath on the casket containing the body of former third deputy Prime Minister and minister of Labour and Disaster Preparedness Paul Etiang during a funeral service at All Saints Church in Kampala yesterday. PHOTO/PARLIAMENT PRESS.
Summary
Etiang was born in 1938 in Kinyil village, Mella Sub-county, Tororo District to the late Keziron Orono and Merab Achom Adacat.
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President Museveni has lauded former third deputy Prime Minister and minister of Labour and Disaster Preparedness Paul Etiang as a patriotic leader and noble officer.
In his tribute, President Museveni said Etiang was a loyal cadre of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party.
Daily Monitor
Sunday January 03 2021
Former Deputy Prime Minister Paul Etiang (left) with Mr Museveni (centre) during the President’s visit to Tororo District in 2000. PHOTOS/COURTESY.
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Etiang was, however, no stranger to controversy. He, in 1965 while serving at Uganda’s mission to Moscow, announced his pending marriage to a Tanzanian national, Ms Zahra A Foum.
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Uganda president, Gen Idi Amin, was not in attendance but a delegation from Uganda was.
With Mr Edward Heath, the prime minister of Britain, seated across the oval conference table, the head of the Ugandan delegation launched an unprecedented attack, accusing the British of racism and neocolonialism and working in pursuit of an agenda that “threatened the very foundation of their Commonwealth of nations”.