Who is Auma Linda Agnes? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with late Major General David Oyite Ojok, Shakila Among Meenyi, National Resistance Movement, Miss Lira 2017, the early life and education of the current Member of Parliament representing Lira district in Uganda.
Auma Linda Agnes is a politician and legislator from Uganda. She is the current woman Member of Parliament representing the people of Lira district.
She won the Parliamentary position as an independent candidate although she has previously been a National Resistance Movement member.
Auma serves as the current state minister for Gender and culture and the vice chairperson of the National Women council in Uganda.
Hon. Auma Linda Agnes has also previously served as the Resident District Commissioner (RDC) Of the Amuru district.
Early Life and Education
Auma Linda Agnes is the daughter to the late Major General David Oyite Ojok, who served as the chief of staff of the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA) during Dr. Apollo Milton Obote’s second term in office.
When Auma was just two years old, her father passed away.
Oyite Ojok died in a helicopter accident in 1983 while on a mission to evaluate the progress of the National Liberation Army (NRA), a guerilla rebel group led by Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who would subsequently gain power in 1986.
Auma also experienced the loss of her mother when she was 8 years old, leaving her a complete orphan. As a result, she lived in poverty and sorrow throughout her early years and life.
With the assistance of well-wishers, Auma attended school and gave birth to her first child at the age of 16.
Auma, a mother of two by then, went back to school to finish her O’levels at the age of twenty-six years. President Yoweri Museveni, a former adversary of his father, financed her tuition.
She then completed an accounting certificate programme, enrolled in a business administration diploma programme, and eventually sought a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Auma Linda Agnes entered politics by running for office and winning the National Youth Council position of Lira Municipal Youth Chairperson.
In 2006, she was also chosen to serve as the Central division’s youth councillor on the Lira Municipal Council.
She ran for the Lira municipality Woman MP seat in 2016 on the National Resistance Movement platform, however, she was unsuccessful. The MP seat was won by Joyce Ongom of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC).
Auma was appointed RDC of Amuru district by President Museveni followingher defeat in the 2016 general elections.
Auma defeated Florence Ongina in the NRM party primaries in the run-up to the general elections in Uganda in 2021, but her victory was overturned after a vote recount.
After Florence Ongina was selected as the NRM candidate for the Lira woman Member of Parliament seat, Auma decided to run as an independent and ultimately won in the 2021 general elections.
She garnered 22,086 over Ongina Florence’s 19,004 votes, Margaret J Ateng Otim of Uganda People’s Congress’s 18,716 votes and Akello Gloria, an independent candidate’s 1,947 votes.
Achievements and Awards
Auma is a member of the Environment and Natural resources committee in the Ugandan parliament. She also works as the Uganda Women Parliamentary Association’s (UWOPA) publicity secretary.
Hon Auma Linda Agnes introduced her husband Peter Ojur to her family in August 2022 in Alidi Village, Oyam District.
Shakila Among Meenyi, Auma’s firstborn child, was named Miss Lira in 2017. She represented Lango Cultural Heritage as well, and in 2020 she was named Miss Tourism Northern Region. Shakila Among also speaks for Lira’s youth on the city council.
Controversies
In November 2018, Auma Linda, the Amuru Resident district commissioner by then stopped the elections of the new executive members of the Amuru Land Owners Association due to alleged fraud and voter bribery.
Two charcoal dealers were admitted to Luweero Hospital in April 2020 in severe condition after they were allegedly mistreated by the Amuru Resident District Commissioner, Auma’s assistants.
The RDC’s driver, Patrick Omara, aka Akeng, one Robert Okwera, and a Crime Intelligence Officer only known as Okot allegedly stopped the two traders, identified as Hawa Namubiru and Elvis Mugula, both residents of Kiwogozi zone in Luweero Town Council, in the Amuru district and beat them.
According to Namubiru, they were stopped and assaulted for allegedly leaking an audio message in which she claimed to have paid Auma 1.5 million Shillings previously to obtain the return of her seized goods.
She continued by alleging that the RDC’s assistants attacked her before handing her off to Auma, who took her phone away on the grounds that it had been used to record her while she was requesting a bribe.
They were then moved to Amuru Central Police Station, where they were held there on the RDC’s orders for three days.
Auma discounted the leaked recording on extortion before the alleged torture, saying she is a prominent figure in Amuru whose name may be used by anyone for all the wrong reasons.
Auma claimed that she had gone for antenatal care on the day that Namubiru was reportedly forced to pay money and that her phone had been turned off. However, she claimed that Namubiru was operating in the charcoal trade illegally.
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