Who is Nuwe Amanya Mushega? Flash Uganda Media looks at his biography, age, wife, family, tribe, relationship with Mrs. Alex Mushega, Miria Nyakato and Kobusingye Kukunda Mushega, President Yoweri Museveni, Vincent Ssempijja, Crispus Kiyonga, early life and education of the former Member of Parliament for Bunyangabu County, Kabarole district in Uganda.
Amanya Mushega, who is known by the name Nuwe Amanya Mushega, is an attorney, politician, diplomat, and public servant from Uganda.
He has held a number of ministerial positions, with the longest tenure of nine years coming as Minister of Education and Sports (1989–1998).
Between 1986 and 2001, he also held the position of Minister in the Ministries of Defense, Local Government, Education, and Public Service.
Amanya Mushega is a retired Colonel and former Member of Parliament of Igara East in Bushenyi District.
Early Life and Education
Nuwe Amanya Mushega was born on 27 June 1946 in Bumbaire Igara County, Bushenyi District in the Western Region of Uganda.
Amanya is married to Mrs. Alex Mushega of Bumbaire Igara County. Some of their children include Miria Nyakato and Kobusingye Kukunda Mushega who are both married.
Before moving to Kings College Budo in 1967 for his A-level studies, Mushega attended Mbarara High School for his O’level education from 1963 to 1966.
He enrolled at the University of Dar es Salaam in 1969 to study law. He earned his bachelor’s degree in law in 1972 before going on to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he earned his master’s degree in law in 1974.
Mushega enrolled in the London School of Economics for the Doctor of Philosophy program in the late 1970s, but he left when he joined the National Resistance Movement (NRM) in 1981.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Amanya Mushega returned to Uganda in 1972 after earning his degree from the University of Dar es Salaam and began working as an assistant lecturer at Makerere University’s college of law.
He also started working as a lecturer at the University of Zambia in Lusaka’s faculty of law in 1974 after earning his master’s degree. Mushega later went back to Makerere University in 1979 and worked there as a lecturer till 1981.
Mushega joined the National Resistance Army in 1981, where he worked as the top national political commissar and eventually attained the rank of colonel. He fought alongside President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in the bush war for the liberation of Uganda.
He then went ahead to hold a variety of ministerial positions between 1986 and 2001 in the defence, municipal, education, and public service ministries. He also represented Igara East in Bushenyi District as a member of parliament during that period.
He was chosen in 2001 to fill the position of secretary general of the EAC for a five-year term by the heads of state of the EAC. From 2001 until 2006, he was the East African Community’s (EAC) secretary general.
After serving in the EAC, Mushega returned to Uganda and cofounded the private consultancy firm Mushega & Associates Consultants with a few other people.
He also served as FDC’s regional vice president of Western Uganda.
Achievements and Awards
Janet Museveni appointed Nuwe Amanya Mushega to be the Chairperson of the Education Review Commission on 11th May 2021 in order to probe the education sector in Uganda.
The commission was to file a report to act as the basis for formulating a new government White Paper on education.
Retired Colonel Amanya Mushega is a freedom fighter who participated in the protracted armed people’s struggle in the 1980s to liberate Uganda.
Controversies
Mushega, who opposed the constitutional amendment that removed presidential term limits in Uganda in 2005, quit the National Resistance Movement political party and joined the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC).
In the run for the 2016 General elections, Mushega openly voiced his displeasure with the FDC party President by then Dr. Kizza Besigye but he did not declare quitting the party as news had spread around.
He later revealed that he was in touch with President Museveni despite the disagreements between them.
In 2017, false news engulfed social media that Amanya Mushega was dead. Mushega later came out to refute the claims and even sipped on a glass of beer to show people that he was still alive and healthy.
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