Ugbana Oyet | |
|---|---|
 Oyet in 2021 | |
| Serjeant at Arms of the House of Commons | |
| Assumed office October 2019 | |
| Speaker | John Bercow Lindsay Hoyle |
| Preceded by | Kamal El-Hajji |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 1976 (age 48) Calabar,Cross River State,Nigeria |
| Nationality | British/Nigerian |
| Alma mater | University of Southampton |
Ugbana Oyet (born September 1976) is a Nigerian-born British chartered engineer and the current Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons. Oyet is the first black Serjeant-at-Arms. [1]
Oyet was born in Nigeria in 1976 and moved to the United Kingdom with his family in 1991. [2]
Oyet was educated in Chichester,West Sussex. It was whilst at school in Chichester that he met Claire,his future wife. [2]
Oyet attended the University of Southampton,studying electrical engineering. [1]
Oyet began working at Parliament in 2012 as Parliament's Principal Electrical Engineer and led efforts to make the parliamentary estate carbon neutral by 2050 before his appointment as Serjeant-at-Arms. [2] [3]
Oyet was appointed as Serjeant-at-Arms in October 2019. [4]
He is married to Claire. They have four children,three sons and a daughter. [2]
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