Godfrey Binaisa

Godfrey Binaisa Lukongwa (* May 30, 1920 in Buganda; † August 5, 2010 in Kampala ) was June 20, 1979 to May 11, 1980 President of Uganda.

After Binaisa had visited the King's College Budo and Makerere the college, he studied law at King's College London in England, and was, when he returned to Uganda in the 1950s, one of the first barrister in the country. He was first a member of the Uganda National Congress and from 1957, the United Congress Party. Prior to independence, Uganda 1962, he joined the Uganda People's Congress, which represented the first government of the independent state, was in the Binaisa 1962-1968 Minister of Justice. In 1969 he again worked as a lawyer, but went in the 1970s after the takeover of Idi Amin in self -imposed exile in the USA, where he worked as a lawyer in Mount Vernon and especially in the exiled opposition was active.

After the fall of amine Binaisa returned to Uganda in April 1979. He released on June 20, 1979 Yusuf Lule as president after he had to leave his position under influence of the Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, whose troops were still stationed after using the lintel amine 1979 in Uganda. Binaisa himself was overthrown but already on 11 May 1980 by Paulo Muwanga an organized military coup, after which he had tried to limit the power of the leaders of the various paramilitary forces, which were still present after the overthrow of the Amin government.

During the 1980s and 1990s he lived in New York, where he worked as a lawyer. In 2002 he returned to Uganda, but was no longer legally or politically active. He was currently the only Ugandans who got the award as Attorney-General.