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# Edward Ssekandi

Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi (born 19 January 1943) is a Ugandan politician and lawyer who served as the eighth vice president of Uganda from 24 May 2011 to 21 June 2021. Prior to that, he served as the Speaker of Parliament from 2001 to 2011. He served as Member of Parliament for Bukoto County Central constituency from 1996 to 2021.

## Life and career

Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi was born on 19 January 1943 to Virgo and Alex Kiwanuka at Bulegeya, a village in Kyanamukaaka Subcounty in Masaka District.
A graduate of St. Mary’s College Kisubi, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of East Africa in Dar es Salaam and a diploma in legal practice from the Law Development Centre, Kampala.
Beginning his career in 1969 as a State Attorney for the Government of Uganda, Ssekandi later transitioned into academia, lecturing at the Law Development Centre in Kampala and eventually becoming the Principal Lecturer and Head of the Department of Law at Makerere University. He was also enrolled as an advocate of The High Court of Uganda in 1970.
In 1974, Ssekandi assumed the role of Head of Post Graduate Bar Course and later became the Acting Director at the Law Development Centre in 1978. Subsequently, he established his law firm, Ssekandi and Company Advocates.
Prior to his entry into politics, Ssekandi served as Chancellor of Namirembe Diocese from 1982 to 1985 and acted as Lead Counsel for the Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights in Uganda from 1986 to 1993. He also held positions such as Vice Chairman of the Law Council Disciplinary Committee from 1986 to 1992.
In 1994, Ssekandi represented Bukoto central as a delegate in the Uganda Constituent Assembly, contributing to the drafting of the 1995 Uganda Constitution.
Entering active politics in 1996, he successfully contested for the Bukoto central seat in Parliament, where he served as Chairperson of the Rules, Privileges, and Disciplinary Committee. He later chaired the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee until 1998.
In September 1998, Ssekandi was elected Deputy Speaker of the 6th Parliament, a position he held until July 2000. He then served as Speaker of the 7th Parliament until 2006 after being re-elected as the member of Parliament for Bukoto central.
Re-elected as Speaker of the 8th Parliament in 2006, Ssekandi also served as Chairperson of the African Parliamentary Union (APU) and President of the PUIC/OIC Union of Parliaments of Islamic Countries until 2011.
He was replaced as Speaker by Rebecca Kadaga, the first female Speaker of Parliament in Uganda's history, on 19 May 2011.

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## Personal details

Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi is married to Margaret Ssekandi.
He belongs to the National Resistance Movement political party. He is reported to be a sports enthusiast.
# Jenifer Abaho Muheesi

Jenifer Abaho Muheesi is a Ugandan women's representative member of parliament for Kazo District under the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in the eleventh Parliament of Uganda

## Education background

Jenifer sat her Uganda certificate of Education from Kibura Girls Secondary School

## Controversies

Former State Minister for Economic Monitoring, Molly Kamukama filed a petition blocking the nomination of Jennifer Muheesi as the NRM flag bearer for Kazo District Woman Member of Parliament. That was dismissed by The High Court in Mbarara claiming that the National Resistance Movement primaries were marred with irregularities after Molly was defeated

## Related links

* Website of the Parliament of Uganda
* List of members of the eleventh Parliament of Uganda
# Henry Musasizi

Henry Ariganyira Musasizi (born 25 February 1981) is a Ugandan business administrator, certified public accountant and politician. He is the reelected Member of Parliament for Rubanda County East and a representative for NRM, the ruling political party in Uganda.
Musasizi was the chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Planning and Economic Development and a member of the Business Committee in the 10th Parliament of Uganda. He is the Chairperson NRM Rubanda District He also served on the Public Accounts Committee in the 9th Parliament of the Pearl of Africa.

## Early life and education

Musasizi was born in Rubanda, Kabale District, on 25 February 1981 in a Catholic family of the Bakiga. He had his primary education in his home district of Kabale acquiring his PLE certification in 1994. He then attended Kigezi College Butobere for his O-Level education, attaining his UCE certification in 1998, and the same school for his A-Level education where he acquired his UACE certification in 2000.
Musasizi further advanced to Makerere University where he graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Commerce. He then pursued a postgraduate certificate at the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU) and became a certified public accountant in 2009. In 2012, Musasizi attained a Master of Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University, a public university based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

## Career

Upon acquiring his bachelor's degree in 2005, Musasizi worked for a year as an accountant with Caritas-Kabale Diocese, the social services and development department of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kabale. In 2007, he got employment at the African Medical and Research Foundation, AMREF, and still worked as an accountant up-to 2010 when he resigned to join elective politics.
In 2011, Musasizi bid for the Rubanda County East parliamentary seat on the NRM ticket, and went on to win in both the party’s primaries and in the general elections and became a member of Uganda's 9th Parliament. In 2016, Musasizi won reelection and continues to serve the constituents of Rubanda County East in the 10th Parliament of the Republic of Uganda. In the 9th Parliament, Musasizi served on the Public Accounts Committee. In the 10th Parliament of Uganda, he was the chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Planning and Economic Development and is a member of the Business Committee.
On June 8, 2021, Musasizi was appointed by H.E. Yoweri Museveni as the State Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in charge of General Duties.
# Jack O'Connell (diplomat)

John W. O'Connell (August 18, 1921 – July 12, 2010) was an American intelligence official, lawyer, diplomat, and author. He was a key adviser and confidant to King Hussein of Jordan.

## Life and career

O'Connell was born in Flandreau, South Dakota. He attended University of Notre Dame on a football scholarship. Unable to play after being injured in a car accident, he transferred to Georgetown University. He left school to serve in the United States Navy in World War II. In 1946, he graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. He earned a law degree at Georgetown in 1948 and joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that year. He was sent to University of the Punjab in Pakistan on a Fulbright scholarship, receiving a master's degree in Islamic law in 1952. He returned to Georgetown and received a PhD in international law in 1958.
He served as the CIA station chief in Amman, Jordan from 1963 to 1971. His first CIA assignment led to the uncovering of a military coup against King Hussein. After becoming a confidant to King Hussein, O'Connell then became Hussein's attorney and diplomatic counselor in Washington for three decades.
His first wife Katherine MacDonald O'Connell, died in 1972. His second wife Syble McKenzie O'Connell died in 1990. O'Connell died of congestive heart failure at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County, Virginia. His memoir King's Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, written with Vernon Loeb, was published posthumously in 2011.
# Aston Kajara

Aston Kajara is a Ugandan lawyer and politician. He is the current State Minister of Finance for Privatization in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 27 May 2011. In the cabinet reshuffle of 1 March 2015, he retained his cabinet post. Prior to that, from 16 February 2009 until 1 March 2015, he served as the State Minister of Finance for Investments. He is also the elected Member of Parliament (MP), representing Mwenge County South Kyenjojo District. He has represented that constituency in parliament from 2001 until 2006 and from 2011 until now.

## Background and education

He was born in Kyenjojo District on 19 September 1956. He attended Kyenjojo Primary School. He transferred to Nyakasura School in Fort Portal, for both his O-Level and A-Level studies. Aston Kajara studied law at Makerere University, Uganda's oldest university, earning the degree of Bachelor of Laws (LLB). He also holds the Diploma in Legal Practice, from the Law Development Center, in Kampala, Uganda's capital city.

## Work experience

Between 1983 until 1988, Aston Kajara worked in the Ministry of Finance, as a Customs Officer. From 1988 until 1990, he served as Board Member and Company Secretary at Uganda Motors Limited, a Ugandan automobile and industrial machinery distributing company, based in Kampala. Between 1992 and 1995, he served as Principal Revenue Officer at the Uganda Revenue Authority.
In 1994, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly which drafted the 1995 Ugandan constitution. In 1995, he went into private legal practice as a Partner at Kajara, Kabiito & Company Advocates, also in Kampala. He maintained his law practice until 2001. In 1996 he contested for the parliamentary seat of Mwenge County South in Kyenjojo District. He won and served as the MP that constituency until 2001. In 2002, he became a Legal Consultant at his legal firm whose name had now changed to Kateeba, Runyangira & Kajara Advocates. In 2006, he regained his parliamentary seat of Mwenge County South. He was also appointed State Minister for Karamoja Affairs, serving in that position until his appointment to his current cabinet post in February 2009. In 2011, he was re-elected to parliament.

## Personal details

Aston Kajara is married. He enjoys social networking, sports and travel.
# Moses Ogwal

Moses Goli Ogwal is a Ugandan politician and a member of the Ugandan parliament from Dokolo North Constituency. He is a member of National Resistance movement (NRM). He served as the Director of Private Sector Development.
In the eleventh parliament, he serves on the Committee on East African Community Affairs.
# Yusuf Mutembuli

Yusuf Mutembuli is a Ugandan advocate of the High Court, academic, politician and member of parliament representing Butaleja District in Bunyole East constituency on the ticket of National Resistance Movement.
In the eleventh parliament, he serves on the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs.

## Political career

Mutembuli contested in the 2016 election on the platform of Democratic Party (DP) but lost to Nagomu Musamba Moses of NRM. Mutembuli served as Democratic Party Vice President and People Power Coordinator of Eastern Region. He defected to the ruling NRM party in the build up to the 2021 general election after 15 years in DP criticizing it as lacking political agenda and said the party is 50 years away from taking presidential power. He was elected to parliament on the NRM ticket in the 2021 election.
# Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet

General Sir John Saunders Sebright, 6th Baronet (19 October 1725 – 23 February 1794) was the sixth Sebright baronet, an officer in the British Army and a Member of Parliament.
Sir John was a younger son of Sir Thomas Sebright, 4th Baronet and Henrietta Dashwood and was educated at Westminster School. In 1761 he succeeded his elder brother to the baronetcy and the Beechwood Park estate in Hertfordshire.
Sir John was colonel of the 83rd Regiment of Foot from 1758 to 1760, and then the 52nd Regiment of Foot, from 1760 to 1762. In 1762 he was promoted to the Colonelcy of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, a position he held until his death. He was promoted full general on 20 November 1782.
He was elected MP for Bath in 1763, was defeated in 1774, but returned in a by-election a few months later, sitting until 1780.
He was a close friend of the Irish statesman and writer Edmund Burke. In 1765, on a visit to Sebright's home at Beechwood Park Burke came across a considerable number of medieval Irish manuscripts in the library. The manuscripts had been given to Sebright's father by the antiquary and philologist Edward Lhuyd who had acquired them on a tour of Ireland in 1700. In 1786, these were bequeathed to the library of Trinity College Dublin and formed the foundation of the Irish manuscript collections there. The manuscripts presented by Sebright included the Yellow Book of Lecan and the Book of Leinster.
In 1766, he had married Sarah Knight, daughter of Edward Knight and Elizabeth James, and had 2 sons and 2 daughters. Their eldest son, John, inherited the baronetcy. Their daughter Henrietta Sebright (DOB. 6 May 1770) married Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood.
# Henry Kajura

Henry Muganwa Kajura (born 7 July 1934), commonly known as Henry Kajura, is a Ugandan administrator and politician. Until 2016 he served as the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Service in the Cabinet of Uganda.

## Background and education

Kajura was born on 7 July 1934 in Masindi, Bunyoro-Kitara, and attended St Mary's College Kisubi. He holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts (BA), from Makerere University, awarded when Uganda's oldest university was still affiliated with the University of London. He also has postgraduate qualifications in Administration, from Oxford University in the United Kingdom and in Management from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the United States.

## Career

From its inception in 1967 until 1973, Kajura served as Secretary of the East African Development Bank. From 1973 until 1978, during the Idi Amin regime, he served as the chairman and managing director of Uganda Commercial Bank, the precursor to Stanbic Bank Uganda. He then served briefly as Governor of the Bank of Uganda from September 1978 until February 1979, being preceded in that role by Onegi Obel and succeeded by Charles Kikonyogo.
From 1978 until 1989, Kajura served as the Chairman of Local Council V (LC V), for Hoima District. He was appointed Minister of Trade & Industry, Natural Resources, Water & Mineral Development in 1989, serving in that capacity until 1998. Between 1998 and 2001, he served as Minister of Water, Lands & the Environment, after Trade & Industry was split off to form a separate ministry. He was appointed Third Deputy Prime Minister in 2002, serving in that capacity until 2005 when he was appointed Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Public Service. In the cabinet reshuffle of May 2009, and that of 27 May 2011, he retained both his cabinet positions, being promoted to First Deputy Prime Minister in 2013. Kajura was a member of Uganda's Cabinet, continuously from 1989 until 2016.
Kajura served as Member of Parliament for Bugahya County on behalf of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) from 1989 until 2006 (losing in the NRM primary to William Rwembera) and for Hoima Municipality from 2011 to 2016, when he lost in the NRM primary to Lawrence Bategeka. In the eighth Parliament (2011–16) he served an ex-officio Member of Parliament, on account of his cabinet appointment. In February 2017 Kajura was appointed as the Bunyoro Omukama’s advisor on palace affairs by Solomon Gafabusa Iguru.
# Tress Bucyanayandi

Tress Bucyanayandi is a Ugandan agriculturalist and politician. He was the Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 27 May 2011. He replaced Hope Mwesigye, who was dropped from the Cabinet, and was replaced on 6 June 2016. He is also the elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Bufumbira County South parliamentary constituency, Kisoro District, in the Ugandan Parliament.

## Background and education

He was born in modern-day Kisoro District on 1 January 1938. At that time, the sub-region was known as Kigezi District. He studied at Bukalasa Agricultural College, graduating with the Diploma in Agriculture, in 1964. He was awarded a scholarship to continue his studies abroad. He entered the West Virginia University, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in 1966. He transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he obtained the degree of Master of Science in Agriculture in 1970.

## Career

Following his studies in the United States, he returned to Uganda and was appointed General Manager of Kinyara Sugar Works Limited, serving in that position until 1974. From Kinyara, he transferred to the headquarters of the Agriculture Ministry, as the Assistant Commissioner, serving in that capacity for the next ten years until 1985. In 1985, he was promoted to Deputy Commissioner of Agriculture, serving in that capacity until 1990. In 1990, he received another promotion to Director of Agriculture, serving in that capacity until 1993. In 1993, he left the Ministry of Agriculture when he was appointed Managing Director of Uganda Coffee Development Authority, the government regulatory agency responsible for regulation, supervision and supporting the coffee industry in the country, serving there until 2000. He entered national politics in 2006, when he successfully contested as the parliamentary representative for Bufumbira County South in Kisoro District. He was re-elected in 2011. In May 2011, he was appointed as Minister of Agriculture.
# Anne Mary Kobugabe Tumwine

Anne Mary Kobugabe Tumwine (born 9 September 1973) is a Ugandan teacher and politician and is a woman member of the 10th and 11th Parliament of Uganda as a representative from Ntoroko district and she is affiliated to the National Resistance Movement political party.

## Background and education

She started school in 1990 and she attainted her Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) from St. Peter and Paul Primary School then her Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) in 1995 from St. Maria Gorretti, Fort Portal. She attainted a Certificate in Hotel and Institution Management at YWCA in 1996 then an ordinary diploma in Business Administration from Ndejje university in 2003. In 2005 she also attained a certificate in Public administration at Makerere university and a bachelor's degree of business administration from Bishop Stuart University, Mbarara in 2012.

## Career

In 1997–2000 she was a Receptionist/Cashier at Nile Hotel international the Sales and Customer Care Officer at Excel logistics 2000–2006. In 2007,2008 and 2009 she was the director of Ebenezer Hope Primary School, Nakivale Hope Primary School and Trust Primary School, Mbarara respectively and now she is as well the Project Administrator at RWCA/Trust Children Centre.

## Political career

She was a woman member of the 10th Parliament of Uganda as a representative from Ntoroko district and she part of the National Resistance Movement. She is the woman member of parliament elect in the 11th Ugandan Parliament from Ntoroko district for 2021–2026.

## Personal life

She is married to Apostle Willy Tumwine of the Mbarara town based Holy Spirit Fire Church. Apostle Tumwine is a resident of Rwanyamehembe Sub County- Kashari- Mbarara district and Education of young people; women welfare and guidance are some her hobbies.
# Rukiya Chekamondo

Rukiya Kulany Chekamondo (born 7 October 1965), sometimes spelled as Rukia Kulany Chekamondo, is a Ugandan educator and politician. She was the State Minister for Privatization in the Ministry of Finance, from June 2006 until May 2011. In the cabinet reshuffle of 27 May 2011, she was dropped from the cabinet and replaced by Aston Kajara. She also served as the elected Member of Parliament (MP), for Kapchorwa District Women's Representative, from 2006 until 2011. During the 2011 national elections, she was defeated by the current incumbent MP, Phyllis Chemutai, an Independent politician.

## Education

Rukiya Kulany Chekamondo obtained her Grade III Certificate in Education, in 1986, from the Institute of Teacher Education (ITEK), one of the institutions that coalesced to become Kyambogo University. She went on to obtain the Diploma in Secondary Education, in 1993, also from ITEK. Her degree of Bachelor of Education in the English Language and English Literature, was obtained in 1999, from Makerere University, Uganda's oldest university, established in 1922. She also holds Postgraduate Diplomas in Education Planning & Management (1999), and in Guidance & Counseling (2001), both from ITEK. Her Master of Education degree in Language Education and English Literature was obtained in 2004 from Makerere University.

## Work experience

She has been a teacher since she obtained her first teaching certificate in 1986. Between 1993 and 1995, she served a Matron, at Bilal Islamic Institute, a school in Kampala, Uganda's capital city. She joined politics in 2006, contesting for the Kapchorwa District, Women's Representative Constituency on the National Resistance Movement (NRM), political party ticket. She won, and on 1 June 2006, she was appointed Minister of State for Privatization. During March 2011, she lost her parliamentary seat and during May 2011, she was dropped from the cabinet in a reshuffle.

## Personal details

Rukiya Chekamondo is married. He belongs to the National Resistance Movement political party. Her interests include reading, research and gender issues.
# Fred Omach

Fred Mandir Jachan Omach, commonly known as Fred Omach is a Ugandan banker and politician. He is the current chairman of the board of directors at Uganda National Roads Authority, since 14 March 2017.
He previously served as State Minister for Finance (General Duties) in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to this position in 2006. In the cabinet reshuffle of 16 February 2009, and that of 27 May 2011, he retained his cabinet post.
He also served as the elected Member of Parliament (MP), for "Jonam County", Nebbi District from 2001 until 2016.

## Background and education

He was born in Nebbi District on 16 April 1953. Fred Omach attended St. Aloysius College Nyapea, in present-day Zombo District, for his O-Level studies. He then attended Lango College in Lira for his A-Level studies, graduating in 1973. He entered Makerere University, the oldest university in East Africa in 1974, graduating in 1977 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Social Administration.

## Career

After graduating from Makerere University, he was hired as a Personnel Officer, by the Uganda Ministry of Public Service, in 1978. In 1979 he joined the now defunct Uganda Commercial Bank (UCB), the largest commercial bank in Uganda at that time. He rose through the ranks until he attained the rank of General Manager, at UCB.
He retired from banking and entered elective politics in 2001. That year, Omach successfully contested for the parliamentary seat of "Jonam County", Nebbi District. He was re-elected continuously since then, until he lost the seat in 2016.
In March 2017, he was appointed chairman of the seven-person board of directors at UNRA, the national roads authority in Uganda. His term runs until March 2020.

## Personal details

Fred Omach is married. He has particular interest in Bible study, playing golf and reading.