Who is Peace Regis Mutuuzo? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, and relationship, Woman MP Bunyangabu District, Woman Representative for Kabarole District, ban labia elongation, Visiting the bush, the early life and education of the current Minister of State for Gender and Culture in Uganda.
Peace Regis Mutuuzo is a politician and environmentalist from Uganda. She is the current Women’s representative for Bunyangabu District in the Ugandan Cabinet.
Mutuuzo also serves as the current Minister of State for Gender and Culture in Uganda. She belongs to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) political group.
Early life and Education
Peace Mutuuzo was born on May 2, 1975, in Kabarole District, Western Region of Uganda, in Rwimi Sub-County, Bunyangabu County. Bunyangabu District has since replaced Bunyangabu County.
She went to school for her primary education at St. Peter and Paul Primary School. She then continued to Katikamu SDA Secondary School and Mpanga Secondary School in Fort Portal for her secondary education.
She obtained a Diploma in Secondary Education from National Teachers College Kakoba (NTCK), which is currently a unit of Bishop Stuart University in Mbarara.
She later enrolled at Makerere University, the country’s first public university, and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science there.
She also graduated from Kampala’s Uganda Management Institute with a Master’s of Public Administration and Management.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Peace Mutuuzo worked for John Sanyu Katuramu’s Give and Take firm before entering active politics. Katuramu is currently serving a life sentence at Luzira Prison.
Later, she served as the President of Uganda’s private secretary in the Office of the President.
She ran for the position of Woman Representative for Kabarole District in 2016, however she lost in the National Resistance Movement political party’s primaries. She was however named State Minister for Gender and Culture after a few months on June 6, 2016.
She took on the issue of sexual violence as one of her first tasks in her new ministerial position. Her agenda also included plans for the National Theater, which was erected in 1959 but is currently too tiny to hold huge crowds.
Achievements and Awards
While at Mpanga Secondary School, Mutuuzo was the head girl.
And while attending National Teachers College Kakoba (NTCK), she held the position of President of the Students’ Guild.
Controversies
Peace Mutuuzo, as the Minister of Gender and Culture, faced criticism and backlash in February 2020 for her efforts to ban labia elongation a practice most common in the Bantu groups also referred to as ‘Visiting the bush’.
She has since received trolling for attempting to go against societal expectations of women.
In return, she was also blasted and asked to apologize by President Museveni who had misunderstood the context of the terminology ‘Visiting the bush’ and thought she meant women who resorted to going to the bush in war.
He was later guided and after understanding what the Minister meant he asked members around if they had a problem with their mothers and sisters modifying their genitalia to which a negative affirmation was generated.
He, therefore, closed the campaign the Minister had launched against ‘visiting the bush’.
According to Mutuuzo in January 2021, John Amulamu Wagabyalile, the newly elected leader of Inzu Ya Masaba, was improperly gazetted.
Speaking to a large crowd of mourners at the funeral service for the late Umukuka II, Bob Mushikori at St. Andrews Cathedral, Mutuuzo asserted that it was untrue that there were rival factions with parallel leaders before Mushikori’s passing.
She said that the Ministry would meet with John Wagabyalile Amulamu, who was chosen by clan chiefs to be Mushikori’s genuine successor, and Mike Mudoma, the leader of the parallel group after Mushikori’s funeral.
She also disclosed that the government had not yet appointed a new cultural icon to succeed the late Mushikori at Inzu Ya Masaba.
Erick Mukhwana, the Public Relations Officer for Inzu Ya Masaba Cultural, however disagreed with the Minister’s assertion, claiming that Mudoma’s faction misled the Minister.
He clarified that John Amulamu Wagbwalila, who had been gazetted before Mushikori’s passing, had been chosen as the new Umukuka by the clan chiefs.
Mike Mudoma, the alleged Umukuka III, praised the minister’s remarks, claiming that he was legitimately elected before Mushikori died and that he was startled to learn that another side had improperly chosen Wagabyalile.
Mutuuzo allegedly shut down the operations of the network and marketing firm Alliance in Motion Global (AIM) in 2022 as a result of allegations of fraud and the hiring of young people as slaves.
The organization, which is thought to have its origins in the Philippines, operated a branch at the Greeton Hotel in the Nyendo township of Masaka city where it hired hundreds of young people to work in the distribution network for dietary supplements and other herbal products made in other countries.
They were promised opportunity and success in exchange, resulting in economic stability and financial independence.
Although the same business had previously been flagged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it continued to operate covertly even after being told to shut down.
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