Who is Persis Princess Namuganza? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, Twabire Community Tractor 2018, Namutumba District, Bukono County, relationship with Speaker Rebecca Kadaga, Kyabazinga William Gabula Nadiope IV, early life and education of the current State Minister for Lands, Housing, and Urban Development in Uganda.
Persis Princess Namuganza is a member of the Ugandan Cabinet and the State Minister for Lands, Housing, and Urban Development.
On June 6, 2016, she was appointed to the role. Namuganza was also the 10th Parliament’s (2016–2021) elected MP for Namutumba District in Bukono County. She is also a social worker.
Early Life and Education
On October 5, 1984, Persis Namuganza was born in the Namutumba District to an Anglican family. Issa Bakaaki is Persis’s spouse, and they have children together.
She received her basic education at local schools before enrolling in Mount Elgon High School in Mbale to earn her Uganda Certificate of Education, which she earned in 1999.
In 2003, she took her Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education at a school in the Luweero District.
Namuganza received an accounting diploma from the Makerere Business Institute in 2006. She enrolled in Kyambogo University that same year, where she earned a Bachelor of Social Work and Social Administration degree in 2009.
However, Persis Namganza’s transcripts were not found, according to Jerome Butamanya, the academic registrar at Kyambogo University.
She has also earned a Master’s Degree in International relations from Cavendish University Uganda in April 2014.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Persis Namuganza started her career in 2009 with the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda, where she worked as a programme officer from 2009 to 2010.
She was moved to Pearl of Africa Research and Accountability, another NGO, where she worked as an administrator and public relations officer from 2010 until 2012.
From 2010 to 2011, she presided over the Busoga Youth Forum. She was chosen to serve as the Luweero District’s deputy Resident District Commissioner (RDC), a position she held from 2012 to 2015.
She entered competitive electoral politics in the country in 2016 by running for the National Resistance Movement political party’s nomination for the Bukono County Constituency seat in Namutumba District. She emerged victorious and is now in office.
Achievements and Awards
For Bukono County, Persis Namuganza purchased the “Twabire Community Tractor 2018”.
For the youths, she bought coffee seedlings to be planted.
Namuganza has made several contributions to several schools, like Twivula Secondary School, she gave educational resources.
She offered high school and university students partial and full bursaries. For Kikalu Primary School, she constructed a VIP latrine. She raised USh7 million to help with the construction of the Arch-Deaconry House.
On January 17, 2019, she gave 2 million Uganda Shillings to the Kibaale Namutumba Farmers’ SACCO in order to buy onion seeds for the residents of Ivukula.
Controversies
The Daily Monitor stated on Monday, March 12, 2018, that Irene Mulyagonja, the inspector general of government, was looking into Namugaza’s potential lack of the academic credentials required to occupy the public offices that she presently holds.
Following a formal complaint made on 7 March 2018 by a group of “concerned persons” from Busoga, her home sub-region, the investigation was started.
Persis Namuganza was kicked out of the Busoga parliamentary assembly in March 2018 by a majority of 32 MPs after engaging in “unbecoming conduct.”
The caucus charged Namuganza with inciting her supporters to hurt, maim, and injure Speaker Rebecca Kadaga and Kyabazinga William Gabula Nadiope IV during a rally she organised at Ivukula in the Namutumba District during the first half of March 2018.
The parliamentary ad-hoc committee presented a report to the Parliament holding some charges against Namuganza on May 18, 2022.
The committee determined that Namuganza had exceeded her authority when she instructed the Uganda Land Commission (ULC) to distribute the Naguru land to various people and businesses without adhering to the PPDA Act. Namuganza was also criticised in the report for acting in accordance with a fictitious presidential directive.
However, the minister took the attorney general to court to try to have the report annulled on the grounds that she was denied a voice because she was unhappy with the study and its recommendations.
She further requested that the attorney general be ordered by the court to pay her Sh1 billion in damages.
Namuganza’s application was rejected, according to Justice Musa Ssekaana, since she only made allegations rather than providing any supporting documentation for her claim that the ad hoc committee failed to give her a fair hearing.
Tabisa Edisa Nakazibwe accused Namuganza of stealing her husband and additionally using her authority to make the police kidnap and torture her in October 2022.
Hobbies
Political debates, travel, swimming, touring, listening to gospel music, watching movies, and football are all things that Persis Princess Namuganza enjoys a lot.
Her special interests also include taking part in environmental cleanup efforts and raising community awareness of concerns like security, hygiene and health.
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