Frank Tumwebaze

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Frank Tumwebaze
Born (1975-12-01) 1 December 1975 (age 48)
Uganda
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Educator and politician
Years active2000—present
Known forPolitics
Title Cabinet Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
SpouseFlorence Tumwebaze

Frank Kagyigyi Tumwebaze is a Ugandan educator and politician of the National Resistance Movement political party. He is the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, effective 8 June 2021. [1]

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He previously served as Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 14 December 2019. [2]

Before that, he was the Minister of Information Technology and Communications, from 6 June 2016 to 13 December 2019. [3] He was Minister for the Presidency and Minister for the Kampala Capital City Authority between 2012 and 2016. He was automatically appointed Member of Parliament for Kibale County in Kamwenge District when the two other contestants for the seat withdrew under suspicious circumstances. [4] [5]

Background and education

Tumwebaze was born in Kamwenge District on 1 December 1975 to Matayo Kagyigyi and Beatrice Kagyigyi. He is the fifth-born in a family of seven children.

He attended Jinja College for his A-Level education. He received a Bachelor of Science in education in 1999, from the Mbarara University of Science and Technology. He also holds a Masters in International and Diplomatic Studies, and a Masters in Public Health obtained in 2005 and 2019 from Makerere University, the oldest university in Uganda. [4] [6] In January 2019, he was awarded a Master of Public Health degree by Makerere University. [7]

Career

Beginning in 2000 until 2001, he served as a customs officer with the Uganda Revenue Authority. In 2001, he was appointed deputy resident district commissioner and was posted to Iganga District, serving in that capacity until 2003. He was then brought into State House, where he served as a special presidential assistant for research and information from 2003 until 2005. In 2006, he entered elective politics by contesting the parliamentary constituency of Kibale County in Kamwenge District. He was elected on the National Resistance Movement political party ticket. In 2011, he was re-elected. [4] In a cabinet reshuffle on 15 August 2012, he was appointed as minister for the presidency. [8] [9] He replaced Kabakumba Masiko, who resigned from government on 14 December 2011 following allegations of "abuse of office", "theft by taking", "causing monetary loss to the government" and "conspiracy to defraud government". [10] [11] [12] In June 2016, he was named as cabinet minister of ICT. [13] In a cabinet reshuffle on 14 December 2019, Tumwebaze was named minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, replacing Janat Mukwaya, who was dropped from the cabinet. [14] On 28 May 2021 he was named as a member of the 11th Parliament's Appointment Committee and this committee which is chaired by the Speaker of Parliament vets and approves members appointed by the President. [15]

Personal details

Tumwebaze is a married father of six children. He is of the Anglican faith. [6]

Parliamentary duties

He has the following additional parliamentary responsibilities: [4]

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