Jaberi Bidandi Ssali

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Jaberi Bidandi Ssali
Born (1937-07-17) 17 July 1937 (age 87) [1]
Butambala, Uganda
Alma mater Uganda Martyrs University
(BA in Local Governance) [2]
Occupation(s)Businessman, politician
Years active1962–present
Known forPolitics
TitleFormer President
People's Progressive Party (Uganda)
SpouseSuzaana Kiganda Nampinga

Jaberi Bidandi Ssali, also Bidandi Ssali (born 1937), is a Ugandan politician [3] and businessman. He is the founder of the People's Progressive Party in Uganda and served as its president. [1] He was also the Minister for Local Government from 1989 to 2004, and an unsuccessful candidate in the 2011 general election. During Idi Amin's regime in the 1970s, Bidandi Ssali worked as a football manager.

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Background and education

Bidandi was born in Butambala District, in the Central Region of Uganda, on 17 July 1937 [1] to Bumaali Kakonge Matembe and Nalongo Eriosi Bulyaba. He attended local elementary schools before joining Kibuli Junior School. He transferred to Nyakasura School for his A-Level education. He studied at a university in Pakistan, pursuing a degree in agriculture, but left before graduation. [4] He holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Local Governance and Human Rights, obtained from Uganda Martyrs University. As of October 2012, he was pursuing a master's degree from the same university. [5]

Career

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Jaberi Bidandi Ssali 2011

At the time of Uganda's independence in 1962, Bidandi Ssali was a mobilizer for the Uganda People's Congress, led by Milton Obote, Uganda's first Prime Minister. During the regime of Idi Amin, he turned his focus to football, coaching Kampala Capital City Authority FC from 1974 until 1979. [6] In the year 1982, Bidandi was the team coach for the Uganda national team The Cranes. [7]

Bidandi also worked as the deputy city mayor for Kampala in 1964 a role he used to foresee some infrastructural developments in Kampala such as the construction of Uganda Commercial Bank Building. [8]

In 1980, when Yoweri Museveni went to the bush to wage the National Resistance War, Bidandi did not go with him, although he clandestinely offered assistance to NRA supporters who sought his help. When Museveni won that war, Bidandi worked with him in the new government as Minister of Local Government from 1989 until 2004. In 2004, he resigned from the Cabinet after disagreeing with Museveni over the latter's desire to run for a third term as president. [1] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Batte, Edgar R. (21 October 2013). "Bidandi Ssali: I Am Done With Politics". Daily Monitor (Kampala). Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Bidandi, Nambooze Graduate at Nkozi". New Vision (Kampala). 15 November 2010. Archived from the original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Lule, Jeff (13 July 2012). "Bidandi Ssali Recuperates". New Vision (Kampala). Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 Kakaire, Sulaiman (4 February 2015). "Bidandi Ssali on His Life, And Wives". The Observer . Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 Ogwang, Joel (October 2012). "Bidandi Ssali, The Pacifist And Father of Decentralisation". New Vision Mobile (Kampala). Archived from the original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150204235838/http://www.newvision.co.ug/mobile/detail.aspx?newsid=629794&catid=417 [ bare URL ]
  7. ↑ https://www.fufa.co.ug/national-teams/uganda-cranes/history/ [ bare URL ]
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150204235838/http://www.newvision.co.ug/mobile/detail.aspx?newsid=629794&catid=417 [ bare URL ]
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