Who is Haroon Muwada Nkunyingi? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, relationship with Robert Kyagulanyi, William Sitenda Sebalu, Apollo Kantiti, and Male Sowedi Kayongo, National Unity Platform (NUP), People Power Movement, early life and education of the current Kyadondo East constituency Member of Parliament (MP) in Uganda.
Haroon Muwada Nkunyingi is a Ugandan politician and lawyer.
He was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Kyadondo East constituency on January 14, 2021. He is a member of Uganda’s opposition party, the National Unity Platform.
Early life and Education
Muwada Nkunyingi was born in Kabubu Manyangwa, Kyadondo East, in 1992. He grew up here with his family and siblings, beginning his early childhood education.
Muwada attended Kisaasi Primary School, Kololo High School, and Old Kampala Secondary School, where he completed his Ordinary Level education. He then enrolled in Gombe for the advanced level.
He is a lawyer with a Bachelor of Laws degree from Makerere University and a Diploma from the Uganda Law Development Centre in Kampala, Uganda.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Muwada Nkunyingi was a guest speaker at the East African Muslim Centre. He entered politics in 2014 after graduating from Makerere University.
He joined the National Unity Platform (NUP) in 2017 when Bobi Wine launched the People Power Movement. He was one of the first highly educated people to join the movement when it was first launched.
Muwadda ran in the Kyadondo East by-election against Robert Kyagulanyi, William Sitenda Sebalu, Apollo Kantiti, and Male Sowedi Kayongo and lost. He ran again in 2021 and won.
Muwada Nkunyingi was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Kyadondo East constituency on January 14, 2021. He was elected to the National Unity platform party, which won all Member of Parliament seats in Kampala and Wakiso.
Achievements and Awards
The net worth of Muwada Nkunyingi is reported to be UGX 400 million, and he is expected to earn more than UGX 350 million in 2021.
His primary source of income is his salary as a Member of Parliament, for which he earns over Ugx.300 million in registered salaries and over UGX.50 million in bonuses and allowances.
Controversies
Nkunyingi Muwada, a city lawyer, once threatened to sue Electoral Commission (EC) chairperson Justice Simon Byabakama for failing to provide him with President Yoweri Museveni’s academic documents as required by the Access to Information Act.
Muwada asked the EC in an August 21, 2020 letter to provide him with academic documents that candidate Museveni used to compete in the 2016 presidential candidates, as required by the Presidential Elections Act 2005.
Muwada told the press today that he had yet to receive an official response from the EC nearly two weeks later.
In August 2022, Hon. Betty Amongi, minister of gender, labour, and social development, has chastised some Ugandans for making false claims about being homeless in the Middle East.
She added that while some Ugandans are truly stranded, others play pranks on being homeless and sleeping on the streets in cities such as Dubai.
The opposition is planning to task the government with finding ways to repatriate Ugandans who are detained in the United Arab Emirates, according to Muwada Nkunyingi, the shadow minister of Foreign Affairs.
Most have been arrested for overstaying, while others have had their passports withdrawn by their bosses.
Juma Kirya spoke with Nkunyingi, who recently returned from a trip to Dubai, where he found extra time to visit some Ugandans who live in Dubai, and discovered that some of them live in the spaces between train stages.
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