The Permanent Secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister Keith Muhakanizi is dead, Ug Mirror reports.
Keith died today in Italy where he has been receiving treatment for some time now.
Who is Keith Muhakanizi?
Keith Muhakanizi was born in Rukungiri District to the late Rev. Kosia Kajwengye and the late Zeridah Kajwengye. He was born to a family of 7 children, 4 boys and 3 girls.
Muhakanizi’s mother was a very kind and ardent religious woman while his father Kajwengye pioneered evangelism in Rujumbura that later spread throughout East Africa.
In addition, they also taught families about the cleanliness of their families and personal hygiene, built schools, health centers as well as pioneering the best methods of farming in the region.
Talking about his parents, Muhakanizi said his parents did not get formal education but were very intelligent and were like degree holders.
His late father was the only one who studied up to primary four and was able to serve as a head teacher of a primary school for many years before joining church ministry.
While his mother was an uneducated woman, she did not attend any classroom. The only education she achieved was the mother’s union lectures, but she was an exemplary leader in their family.
WORK AND EXPERIENCE
Keith Muhakanizi has been the Permanent Secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister.
Mr Keith Muhakanizi was both an ardent Development and Macro- Economist, and a Public Sector Management Specialist with thirty-eight years experience in Government, rising from an Economist to his present position as Permanent Secretary to the Treasury at Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development of the Republic of Uganda.
In the 1990s, he played a central role in the formulation and implementation of economic reforms that restored the macro-economic stability of Uganda’s economy.
Muhakanizi guided both the technical and policy development work in the preparation of successive National Development Plans.
More policy reforms and enhancing public financial management to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of public resource use to promote enhanced domestic resource mobilization.
At Ministry of Finance, he was instrumental in designing major policy changes along with Chris Kassami.