Who is Patrick Nyakahuma Kamara? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, relationship with the late Atwooki Kamara (father), Sak Magezi, 2005 Radio Reporting Awards, NTV Uganda, early life and education of the current Minister for ICT in the Tooro Kingdom parliament.
Patrick Nyakahuma Kamara is a seasonal journalist and senior news reporter in Uganda.
Kamara hosts the ‘On the Spot’ talk show every Thursday on NTV Uganda where different politicians and personnel are interviewed. He also serves as a minister in the kingdom of Tooro.
Early life and Education
Patrick Nyakahuma Kamara was born to the late Atwooki Kamara (father) of Ngezi village, Fort Portal. He has an older brother by the name of Sak Magezi.
When Kamara was younger, he dreamed of becoming a soldier. He claims that he attempted to enlist, but his father prevented him from doing so. The person who was attempting to recruit him was persuaded by his father not to.
Patrick Kamara’s wife passed on in May 2020. After she successfully delivered her baby at Community Hospital Lugoba, Kawempe, complications arose during monitoring after delivery. The doctor and midwives referred the mother to Mulago Hospital, Kawempe.
On reaching Kawempe, only painkillers were given, no doctors or midwives from Mulago worked on her, and her condition continued to deteriorate till she died. Patrick Kamara is a father though.
He has a diploma in journalism. He is also an Edward Murrow Fellow at Jackson State University.
He was one of the delegates in the group of 19 journalists and editors from Africa who visited the Reynolds School of Journalism on 16 October 2008 as a part of the Third Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists, which ran from October 10th to 25th.
Career and Professional Work Experience
For more than 15 years, Patrick Kamara has worked as a broadcast journalist.
He began his career in 1999 as a news presenter and reporter at a small-town FM station before moving on to Monitor FM and then KFM as a producer and reporter in 2001. He was the KFM host of The Hot Seat.
He began working for NTV in 2006 as a news producer, and in 2008 he was promoted to senior reporter and talk-show host. As part of the Nation Media Group, NTV Uganda is a Ugandan television station that broadcasts in East Africa. It began airing on December 6 2006.
His duties include providing topics for stories and feature projects, reporting from the field, suggesting guests for the weekly conversation show On The Spot, choosing which guests to invite, and hosting the show itself.
In April 2013, Patrick Kamara Nyakahuma was appointed Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Tooro Kingdom parliament. Additionally, Kamara is employed by Wizarts Media in Ntinda, Kampala.
Achievements and Awards
Patrick Kamara scooped the first prize at the 2005 Radio Reporting Awards on December 9, 2005. He won the top honour for excellence in the category of features news as a producer for KFM Tonight, the radio station’s evening show.
Kamara cited in an interview that he felt a sense of accomplishment whenever he successfully extracted information from a source that the public wanted.
Controversies
While at Voice of Tooro, Kamara covered a story on the ongoing ADF violence in the area when he was yet a rising journalist.
When the military arrived, they accused him of publishing false news since he was the acting news editor. He was then driven to the location in a military van which he refers to as a ‘scarring moment’.
While hosting the former speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga on a talk show ‘On The Spot’ in February 2019, Kamara asked the former speaker about her plans for retirement.
Hon. Kadaga instead flared up claiming that she could only discuss such an issue with her voters and not anyone else for that case. She complained and disagreed with the questions and the way Kamara was conducting the interview.
In March 2019, Kamara hosted Bobi Wine as a guest speaker on NTV’s ‘On the Spot’ program to interview him about his preparedness for the upcoming presidential elections in 2021.
One of the interview questions asked was about the fiscal policies Bobi Wine had in place to reduce inflation in Uganda if he were to be elected.
Bobi Wine had cluelessly said that he would ban OTT and immediately remove impunity from the country citing the example of General Kyaligonza. This caused chaos in the media as Bebe Cool took to criticizing the NUP President while some of Bobi Wine’s supporters blamed it on Kamara.
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