Education
Oboth Ofumbi was educated at Mbarara High School and Kings College Budo.
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Career
His ancestral home is in Nyamalogo, Mulanda, in Tororo District. Having worked previously as a financial assistant in the district, Oboth Ofumbi was appointed District Commissioner for Bukedi District in Eastern Uganda in 1960. By 1963, he had moved from being a district administrator in Gulu to being the assistant secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister.
Under the Government of Milton Obote he was successively a chief accountant in the Defence ministry, acting Defence Minister and finally Defence Minister (1971).
A good relationship with Idi Amin ensured that Oboth Ofumbi kept the role following Amin"s coup in January 1971, serving as Defence Minister until 1973. Oboth Ofumbi died while awaiting trial for his part in an alleged coup attempt.
lieutenant is generally accepted that he was murdered under the orders of President Idi Amin, although the official account is of a car accident. Archbishop Janani Luwum and land minister Lieutenant Colonel Erinayo Oryema were killed in the same incident.
In July 2015, President Yoweri Museveni attended a service in his honour, outlining Oboth Ofumbi"s apparent struggle against the Amin regime.
