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Following Museveni and NRM's win in the 2006 general elections, rumours began spreading that Kategaya was in reconciliation talks with Museveni. The rumours proved well-founded when Museveni nominated his old ally for approval by the Parliament as a Cabinet Minister. Subsequently, he was appointed to
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During Museveni's second term as elected President (2001 - 2006), Kategaya, then serving as Internal Affairs Minister, famously fell out with the President when he opposed moves to have the Constitution amended to remove presidential term limits. In May 2003, he was dropped from his ministerial
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position during a Cabinet reshuffle, along with other ministers who opposed the removal of term limits. Kategaya continued to speak out against amending the term limits provision until eventually the heavily pro-Museveni Parliament pushed the amendment through.
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after Museveni. Between 1986 and 2001, Kategaya served in various capacities as National Political Commissar for the NRM and Minister in Museveni's governments.
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From the time he was dropped from the Cabinet, Kategaya returned to practice as a private lawyer with J.B.Byamugisha Advocates, a law firm based in
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When the NRM and NRA eventually took power in January 1986, Kategaya was one of the groups' top leadership and considered by most as the
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Eriya Kategaya died on 2 March 2013 in Nairobi, where he had been hospitalised for a while.
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In the cabinet reshuffle of 27 May 2011, Eriya Kategaya maintained all his cabinet posts.
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Dave Eckerson welcomes guest of honor Eriya Kategaya at U.S 235th anniversary celebration
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administration (1981 - 1985), Kategaya served in the 'External Wing' of the rebel
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from 1961 to 1966. Kategaya and Museveni also attended the
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In December 2004, he participated in the formation of the
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