[2] In 1966, Ochaya left Uganda and moved to the District of Columbia in the United States of America to take a position at the Economic Development Institute at the World Bank.
[1] While abroad working at the World Bank in the District of Columbia, Ochaya began getting involved with the Uganda National Liberation Front, a group of predominantly exiled prominent Ugandans who opposed the regime of Ugandan President Idi Amin and who sought to remove Idi Amin from power and then to establish immediately an interim civilian government.
[6] As Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Ochaya repeatedly clashed with newly appointed Governor of the Bank of Uganda, Gideon Nkojo.
[citation needed] In 1984, Ochaya founded the Nationalist Liberal Party alongside Tiberio Okeny Atwoma, Cuthbert Joseph Obwangor, and Francis Bwengye.
A number of civil servants and some families sought protection from the fighting in the hall of the White Rhino Tourist Hotel, where they were massacred.
Anthony Ochaya and fellow minister Moses Apiliga who led the Ministry of Supplies, both had "a number of relatives" who were killed in the attack.