Who is Bakkabulindi Charles? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Denis Hamson Obua, Norah Bakkabulindi, Mr Bosco Onyik, Uganda Boxing Union, the early life and education of the current Worker’s Member of Parliament.
Bakkabulindi Charles is a Ugandan engineer and Politician.
Previously, Bakkabulindi was the State Minister for Sports in the Ugandan Parliament for three consecutive terms.
Hon. Bakkabulindi Charles is the current Worker’s Member of Parliament, Kampala-Uganda.
Early Life and Education
Bakkabulindi Charles was born on November 25, 1959, in Rakai district, Uganda.
He is married to Norah Bakkabulindi and the couple has children.
In 1985, he obtained his post-secondary academic qualification in Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Uganda Polytechnic Kyambogo, one of the constituent institutions of Kyambogo University.
In 2006, He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Arts in Adult and Community Education which he obtained from Makerere University.
Bakkabulindi received a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration from Uganda Management Institute in 2007 after acquiring a Master of Arts in Management Studies degree still at UMI in 2006.
Career and Professional Work Experience
In 2005, Bakkabulindi Charles was appointed as the State Minister for Sports in the Ugandan Cabinet. In the cabinet reshuffles of 1 June 2006, 16 February 2009, 27 May 2011, and of 1 March 2015 he retained his cabinet post.
In December 2019, he was succeeded by Denis Hamson Obua.
Between 1994 and 1996, he served as an envoy to the Constituent Assembly that drafted and passed the 1995 Ugandan Constitution.
Bakkabulindi was elected to Uganda’s Parliament as the Worker’s Representative in 1996.
In the same year, he was also elected National Chairman of the Uganda Beverage, Tobacco, and Allied Workers Union.
Achievements and Awards
On Wednesday, February 21, 2018, at Copper Chimney Restaurant, Lugogo, Bakkabulindi inaugurated the National Council of Sports new Council (Board) led by Mr Bosco Onyik.
Controversies
Bakkabulindi Charles was found guilty of defying court orders in 2004 by allowing new FUFA elections despite the fact that the court upheld the elections.
He was ordered by the Constitutional Court to pay an undefined amount of money to Uganda Super League LTD who filed the complaint.
Additionally, he could not considerately match the Uganda Super League Limited and FUFA 2012 clash about who should run the league hence FUFA contentiously suspending the former a day before the return of the league’s second round, a dispute that ended in losing football’s major broadcast partner Supersport in addition to other sponsors like Bell and Eco Bank.
Bakkabulindi was on the edge of failing the Uganda Boxing Union (UBU), the organisation that had resurrected professional boxing.
The Union had procured prospective sponsors that comprised Power Horse Energy Drink, Mogas petrol station, Samona and NBS TV as everlasting broadcast partners. The ex-minister said that Uganda had not yet gotten to the level of having two professional boxing bodies thus eliminating UBU.
In 2015, he supported the renovation of Nakivubo Stadium by businessman Hamis ‘Ham’ Kiggundu but presently the War Memorial space is an habitant for business people surrounded by amazing shopping centres.
Apart from holding football games, the stadium was a home for boxers and netball players.
Hobbies
Bakkabulindi loves listening to music, reading, following politics and watching sports.
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