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Who is Fred Enanga?
Who is Fred Enanga?

Who is Avur Jane Pacuto? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Mr George Echonga, Christine Echonga, Edith, and the early life and education of the current Senior Commissioner of the Ugandan Police Force.

Fred Enanga is a Ugandan senior commander of Police, public servant, and economist by profession.

He is the current Senior Commissioner of the Ugandan Police Force and also the Police Spokesperson.

Net Worth

Fred Enanga has an estimated net worth of 432 million Ugandan shillings.

This is a result of his yearly income of over 90 million Ugandan shillings, primarily from his salary as Senior Commissioner and Spokesperson of the Uganda Police.

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Early Life 

Fred Enanga was born on 23rd June to a family of ten and grew up in Kampala with his parents. Five of them are living; two boys and three girls as of today.

His ancestral home is in Apac District, Ayago village in Akokoro sub-county, Northern Region of Uganda.

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A Luo by ethnicity, Enanga was very playful and stubborn during his childhood days.

Enanga’s father always encouraged him to study very hard and become a pilot. That was alongside seeing his son become a doctor, after making him study medicine.

However, Enanga did not perform well in sciences at senior four mainly due to insurgencies in Northern Uganda.

He attained a second grade and instead enrolled for an art combination ending up as an economist.

Education Background

Fred Enanga first went to Peter Piper Nursery School and then Mugwanya Preparatory School from Primary one to Primary four. He then moved to St Savio where he sat for his Primary Leaving Examinations. 

Afterwards, Enanga joined Lango College for his O’ Level education in the boarding section, followed by Kololo SSS. 

He then went to Kitante Hill where he sat for his A’ Level examinations.

Enanga then joined Makerere University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences majoring in Economics.

Education background summary

YearsInstitutionStatus /Award
St Savio primary schoolPLE – Completed
Lango CollegeUCE – Completed
 Kitante HillUACE – Completed
1998Makerere UniversityBachelor’s degree in Social Sciences.

Other academic accomplishments

In 2007, Fred Enanga attended two courses, one in Kyankwanzi about leadership and an executive leadership course in Japan.

Family background

Enanga’s father Mr George Echonga, a police officer by then lived in Entebbe where he raised his children from. 

They never slept in a unit, they had a two-roomed house having police furniture (metallic chairs and tables) while in Entebbe.

George later retired as a superintendent.

Enanga’s mother, Christine Echonga got married to Enanga’s father at 14 years. 

Christine used to make samosas for a living, Enanga and his siblings would carry the samosas down to Kamwokya helping their mother.

After a while, their mother got a stall in the Kamwokya market and thereafter started dealing in produce.

After some time, Enanga’s family relocated to Kamwokya, Kanjokya street plot 6.

After some years, the family moved to Kawempe when Enanga was in senior six where his father had built a two-roomed house. 

Marriage / Relationship

Fred Enanga is married to Edith, and together they have six children; three boys and three girls.

Career and Professional Work Experience

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Fred Enanga kicked off his career journey after graduation with a short stint at Union College (now inexistent) close to Bahai Temple as an economics teacher.

He then joined the Christian Children’s Fund, where he acquired a Suzuki motorcycle. After two years, his dad advised him to get a government job.

Enanga listened to his father and began applying and attending interviews; with the Bank of Uganda, the Uganda Society of Disabled Children (USDC), other financial institutions and public service.

He eventually joined the police in 2001 after doing an aptitude test in early 2000 at Kyambogo with over 3000 applicants yet there were only 45 slots.

Enanga returned as a cadet superintendent of police. He then began working in Entebbe as an Operations officer.

After this role, he was promoted to OC CID, Nateete while still a cadet. He was among the 14 officers who were promoted at that time. 

Enanga served for six months in that role and greatly contributed to the nation by reducing incidents of mob justice in the areas of Kitebi and towards Busega. 

After six months, Enanga was transferred and given a district, Ssembabule district as the CID officer and he was also confirmed from there as a full assistant superintendent of police under DPC Madam Agaba Alison. 

He worked for three years in that role handling very complicated cases of land, politics and gruesome murders.

From Ssembabule, Enanga was transferred to Lira municipality as a district CID Officer.

He was then transferred to CID headquarters as a staff officer. So, he got into management, in the CID administration department for almost two years.

In Lira Municipality, Enanga doubled as a Public Relations Officer for CID. He helped handle the Kato Kajubi, Minister Jim Muhwezi and Mike Mukula cases. Godi’s case also came in around that time, after that, he went to Darfur for 20 months.

When Enanga returned, he was redeployed to CID to head the economics crime department which he also did for about six to seven months. He was then transferred to Kampala Metropolitan as CID commander.

Enanga served CID for six weeks. Then he enrolled on a course, however, He encountered some challenges in that course and he stayed home for another six months. He was then deployed to land protection. 

Barely two weeks into the land protection, there was the crisis in Kayunga District: Hon Nantaba and related incidents of land grabbing making Enanga take another four months in Kayunga.

Following his designation as Commissioner in 2018, Fred Enaga was made the Ugandan police’s spokesperson. He has served in the position twice.

In 2022, he was promoted to the senior commissioner of police, a rank that is the fourth highest in the police force.

Work experience background summary

YearsInstitutionPosition
 Union CollegeEconomics teacher
2001Uganda Police ForceCadet Superintendent of Police
2002EntebbeOperations officer
Ssembabule districtCID officer(assistant superintendent of police)
Lira municipalityCID Officer, staff officer, Public Relations Officer for CID
2018 – PresentUganda Police ForcePolice Spokesperson, Commissioner of Police (CP)
2022 – PresentUganda Police ForceSenior Commissioner of Police (SCP)

Achievements and Awards

Enanga was one of the 81 recipients of the Golden Jubilee Medal on Heroes Day, 2022.

In 2002, during the Itongwa insurgency when people were attacking police posts, Enanga and colleagues withdrew and closed some of these posts so that guns didn’t end up in the wrong hands.

Then for the fishermen at Nakiwogo, a landing site in Bugonga, there had been clashes between the Bantu and West Nile people over spending more time on the waters and so on.

Enanga exhibited police authority and arrested some of the people restoring sanity in the region. For this, people nicknamed him ‘Kayanja’.

Controversies

In October 2019, the disputed four square miles of land, which is located in Maruzi Block 2, plot 66 at Oreta village, Akokoro Sub County, Apac district, was cancelled by the Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters. 

The land was owned by Fred Enanga and his father, George Econga Okabo. Enanga and Econga were summoned after clan members, including Enanga’s 96-year-old grandfather, Naphtali Enanga, and his aunt Lilly Alwedo, petitioned the Commission, alleging that father and son were trying to seize the customary land that belongs to the Okabo clan.

The witnesses charged Enanga with orchestrating the conflict in the background by dispatching police officers that he periodically pulls from the Apac Central Police Station. 

Enanga refuted the allegations, claiming that his parents had simply alerted local authorities to criminal activity directed at their family and property, which had occasionally resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of those responsible.