years_active home_town birth_place citizenship religion nationality ethnicity birth_date known_for residence article_title education name occupation
1971 -- present luweero uganda uganda protestant ugandan muganda 14 january 1950 politics kampala , uganda abraham byandala
 '' science in civil engineering -rrb- '' ` strathclyde university '' ` ' -lrb- master of science in civil engineering -rrb- makerere university '' ' -lrb- bachelor of abraham byandala engineer & politician
abraham byandala

abraham james byandala is a ugandan engineer and politician .
he is the current minister for works and transportation in the ugandan cabinet .
he was appointed to that position on 27 may 2011 .
he replaced john nasasira , who was appointed government chief whip .
byandala also serves as the elected member of parliament for katikamu county north , in luweero district .
