Kirya Balaki Kebba

Kirya Balaki Kebba the ex-rebel leader now-defunct rebel Uganda Freedom Movement who was kidnapped by security agents from Jamuhuri estate in Nairobi while in exile in the Republic of Kenya and brought back to Uganda. Kirya Balaki Kebba was acquitted of Treason charges in 1983 but was detained. One of the architects of Ugandan nationalism, Kirya Balaki Kebba's father belonged to the Baganza clan and his mother of the Balumba Clan, was born in 1924 at Petete, Iki-Iki, in Bukedi (current-day Budaka District) who later died in 1994 and buried at Nyanza Village Kamonkoli, Budaka District. KIRYA Balaki Kebba was educated at Budaka Junior Secondary School, Nairobi Kabete Jeanes School, a training Institution for African colonial development officers in 1942, Kennedy College Ceylon in 1944, the current Sri Lanka which was a British Crown Colony, intelligence and map reference course and course in Social Welfare 1946. Kirya Balaki Kebba joined the army at 17 years of age and rose through the ranks as a soldier in the Kings African Rifles. As a Non-Commissioned Officer he experienced World War II under the 121st Brigade in Burma. After the war he served as a welfare officer of the Toro colonial administration between 1947 and 1953. It is in his service as an administrator in the colonial establishment and he came face-to face with the oppression of Africans. he then chose to change that by beginning on the economic side when he together with chief Wakida Philipo founded the North Bukedi Co-operative Union (the first cooperative society in Bukedi) with the goal of promoting the native livelihood. In this role he criticized the colonial establishment, which created for him a social base and turned him into a politician. Kirya Balaki Kebba was the first highly trained military officer and government minister among the Gwere people, who later became one of the first leaders of Uganda's first political party, Uganda National Congress (UNC) in charge of the Mbale branch.