• Aeronautical Engineering: East African Airways as ground and Flight Engineer; Uganda Airlines as Flight Engineer; GasAir Cargo Airline (Nigeria) – as Flight Engineer; Flight training locations:- Ethiopian Airlines in Addis Ababa; Cathy Pacific – Hong Kong; Florida Aviation Training.
• Post-Graduate – University of East London
• Research and social work– UK
ON PRACTICE – LEARNING BY ACTION & HELPING THE NATIONALITY TO MAKE BETTER DECISIONS:
• 1973-1976 – Kenya: Learning the liberation art from other significant political practitioners and operatives
• 1976-1979 – Uganda: Learning the operating deep in the enemy territory.
• 1979-1980- Uganda: tasked with various tasks and responsibilities in both political and security.
• 1979-1980 – Uganda: facilitator/moderator of Draft Political Manifesto Committee for 1980 Uganda Peoples Congress Election Manifesto.
• 1980-1985- Uganda – tasked with handling socio-economic matters; backroom political internal to Uganda and non-Ugandan political operatives.
• 1985-1986 – management of political change in 1985 and in 1986.
• 1986-1988 – emissary for and to various political interests.
• 1993-2014 – rebuilding exile politics and Juba Peace Process initiative.
KEY SPEARS:
1. Apollo Milton Obote President 1961-1971& 1980-1985; 1986-2006 – exile.
2. Paulo Muwanga–Unlimited access to Chairman Military Commission 1980 &Vice President 1980-1985.
3. MuamarGadhafi 1978 – limited audience in Tripoli [while with Uganda Airlines] and 2012 limited audience in Tripoli –while in exile.
4. OdumegwuOjukwu 1990 – in company of significant political interests while in extended residency in Lagos and working with GAS Air Cargo [Nigeria].
5. Laurent-Désiré Kabila 1989-1986 – unlimited access while he was in exile in Uganda; and as President DRC–1997-2001.
6. OtemaAllimadi – Unlimited access to Foreign Minister 1979-1980; and Prime Minister 1980-1985.
7. Akenap’Ojok – Unlimited access from 1973 and as Vice Chairman Uganda National Liberation Front 1979-1980; Minister of Uganda Government 1979-1985.
8. AgostinhoNeto President of Angola: 1974 – 1st state visit to Kenya: ringside view while tending to the VIP aircraft, who on stepping on Kenya soil made, a historic declaration and clarion call to Afrika person to ‘take back Afrika habitat’.
9. Pik Botha – South African Foreign Minister 1975:while at airport waiting for arriving dignitaries to the Seychelles independence celebration had a restricted but revealing encounter to what I later observed in his role in dismantling apartheid.
10. JaramogiOginga-Odinga – 1973-1974 – as a neighbour in Nairobi Westwhenever he was in Nairobi, I benefited from some discussion and analysis on Kenya and Uganda politics.
11. Roy Innis – Congress of Racial Equality [CORE] – USA – 1975 –while traveling as a passenger on East African Airways, benefited from a range of discussion on BLACK Afrika/US relationship, which was followed with a formal discussion at the airline crew hotel in Heathrow which was also their transit layover hotel on their invite to OAU by Idi
FRONTLIINE MOMENTUS, SHAPING EVENTS & ACCOUNTING WITH VARIOUS TOOLS.
• James Oporia-Ekwaro- 1971-1975 – Introduction and signposting to the liberation of Uganda from military governance.
• 1973-1979 –Save Uganda Movement political/military operative in the ending of the Idi Amin military government.
• Ephraim Kamuntu – 1975 – 1979 host, recorder & guardian of Save Uganda Movement liberation programme.
• Col Zed Maruru – 1977 – 1979 partnership in the designing Critical Path Network for Save Uganda Movement military programme delivered as planned on 9th April 1979.
• Ethiopian Revolution [Red-v-White Terror] – Addis Ababa 1978 – seminars on leftist struggles while on training with Ethiopian Airlines and staying at WabeShebele Hotel.
• MarwaKambale–Brigadier [Tanzania]The Conqueror of Conqueror of British Empire-1979: – unlimited access on security matters and tasked with organising the programme for post-Amingovernment.
• James Nzagi 1979-1980 – Office of the President – Tanzania: Unlimited access on political/security matters during the Uganda National Liberation Frontgovernmentperiod and the Military Commission.
• David Oyite-Ojok – Major General and Uganda Army Chief of Staff 1979-1983. Unlimited access on political/security matters during the Uganda National Liberation Front governments of YusulLule and Godfrey Binaisa and then Military Commission government under Paulo Muwanga; and UPC-II government under Milton Obotegovernment.
• Bidandi Ssali – 1979-80:Unlimited access to UNLFGovernment Minister and in Kampala City Hall Meeting during the political formation of the ‘third force’ that Uganda Patriotic Movement.
• Kenya Air force uprising 1982 – While in Nairobi and holed up in New Stanley Hotel.
FRONTLINE POLITICAL ACCOUNTING:
• Uganda National Liberation Front delegation to Kenya 1979 led by OtemaAlimadi for the Yusuf Lule government.
• Uganda National Liberation Front delegation to Zaire 1979 led by OtemaAllimadi for the Binaisa government.
• Uganda Military Commission delegation to Cuba 1980 led by Paulo Muwanga during the Military Commission government.
Frontline socio-economic
• Director Uganda National Cultural Centre 1985-1986.
• Director Uganda Produce Marketing Board 1980-1985.
Key influencing places
• Kampala, Entebbe, Mbale, Tororo – Uganda; Schooling, social networking and meaningful/gainful activities.
• Lagos Nigeria –in the company of Nigerian political luminaries during their private sessions on the political predicaments of Nigeria and Afrika.
• Dhaka – Bangladeshi – 1974 – experiences of life in Dhaka for the population in the capital after the war of independence.
• Nairobi – Kenya – Attending to political discussion affecting both internal Kenya issues and Uganda; supporting fleeing political refugees from Uganda.