Anthony Ochaya

Anthony Ochaya (25 December 1932 – 6 July 1998) was a Ugandan politician and economist. He was the Minister of Planning and Economic Development under the Ugandan National Liberation Front government and was also commissioner for economic affairs at the World Bank.

Early life and education Early life Anthony Ochaya was born in the town of Atiak, in the Amuru District of Northern Uganda on 25 December 1932.

Career Early career After graduating from Makerere University in 1956, Anthony Ochaya worked as a civil servant in a variety of low-level positions. He first worked as an assistant district commissioner in the Moyo District in Northern Uganda, a position he held until 1960. He then worked as an administrative officer for the Independence Celebrations Office based in Kampala, before transferring to work as an administrative officer in the Office of the Chief Minister of the Uganda Protectorate under Chief Minister Benedicto Kiwanuka from 1960 until 1962.

Under the first Milton Obote administration, Anthony Ochaya held various medium-level positions in the newly independent nation of Uganda. In 1962, he became the Assistant Secretary for the Ministry of Finance. In 1963, he worked in the Ministry of Finance, before being appointed the Principal Assistant Secretary for the Ministry of Health in 1964. He worked as the Principal Assistant Secretary for the Ministry of Health for one year before moving into the Ministry of Planning and Community Development as the Principal Assistant Secretary in 1965. He then returned to the Ministry of Finance, being promoted to the role of Under Secretary in 1966. When the Uganda National Liberation Front took provisional control of the Government of Uganda in 1979, Anthony Ochaya returned to the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, this time being appointed as Minister of Planning and Economic Development by the Uganda National Liberation Front government. The Nationalist Liberalist Party was a splinter group from the leading opposition party at the time, the Democratic Party. The Nationalist Liberal Party was created in response to former acting Secretary General of the Democratic Party Tiberio Okeny Atwoma's unsuccessful challenge to Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere for the leadership of the Democratic Party (Uganda). The party was short-lived, and eventually was absorbed back into the Democratic Party by 1986 with Okeny ultimately rejoining the Democratic Party of Uganda.

Death Anthony Ochaya was admitted into Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda on 24 June 1998, on suspicion of pneumonia and Kidney disease. He died on 6 July 1998. He is buried in Agwe, a village near Gulu, Uganda.