[2] Otada previously served as member of Parliament for Kibanda County, Kiryandongo District from 2001[3] to 2016.
Otada's father, a businessman and entrepreneur, died in 1999 soon after his youngest son finished his undergraduate studies at Makerere.
The young man, at age 22 inherited his father's company, then a bus operator with about 30 buses.
Under his leadership, the bus company has grown into four different businesses dealing in transportation, civil engineering, construction, waste management, and mobile telephone airtime.
Otada was elected as the member of Parliament for Kibanda County, Kiryandongo District in 2001.