Ssenyonyi Pays Tribute to Gen. Moses Ali, Says Political Differences Did Not Erase Respect for His Service

What the report says

Nile Post reports that Leader of the Opposition Joel Ssenyonyi has joined national tributes to Gen. (Rtd.) Moses Ali, the former First Deputy Prime Minister and Adjumani County West MP, who died at Nakasero Hospital on Saturday at age 87. President Yoweri Museveni said Ali had been admitted with unspecified ailments, while the family said he had fallen into a coma before his death.

Speaking during a special parliamentary sitting on Tuesday chaired by Speaker Jacob Oboth-Oboth, Ssenyonyi said his political differences with Ali did not cancel out respect for the veteran leader’s long record in public life. Ssenyonyi, an NUP member, noted that Ali belonged to the NRM and that he had disagreed with his decision to seek re-election while unwell, but still recognised his decades of service as a soldier, minister, legislator and national figure. He extended condolences to Ali’s family, Adjumani residents, Uganda’s Muslim and Nubian communities, and the wider country.

Museveni also mourned Ali, describing him as a long-serving soldier and politician, and pointing to his role as a modern farmer in West Nile. Nile Post says Ali had recently left active government after being left out of the Cabinet named in May 2026 on medical grounds, with his son Siraji Musa Ali later appointed State Minister for Works and Transport.

The article places Ali’s career across Uganda’s military and political transitions: service in the Uganda Army, senior roles under Idi Amin, exile and leadership of the Uganda National Rescue Front, a 1988 peace accord with the NRM government, and later Cabinet and parliamentary roles. Regional and final burial prayers were expected in Adjumani.