Who is Susan Amero? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Proscovia Oramait Alengot (Usuk County MP), Teso People Power, the early life and education of the current woman Member of Parliament of Amuria district in Uganda.
Susan Amero is a Ugandan politician. Hon. Susan Amero is the current Woman Member of Parliament for Amuria District.
She is the former vice-chairperson of the Presidential Committee.
Early life and Education
Susan Amero was born on April 17, 1976, in Amuria in the Eastern Region of Uganda. She is an aunt to Proscovia Oramait Alengot (Usuk County MP).
Amero finished her Primary Leaving Examination in 1989 at Rock View Primary School in Tororo district. She completed her Uganda Certificate of Education at St. Francis School for the Blind in Madera in 1993.
In 1996, she received her Uganda Advanced Certificate from Mbale Secondary School.
Amero earned certificates in Tour and Travel Operator and IATA/UFTAA at Airway Tours and Travel in Switzerland between 1996 and 1997.
She graduated with a Bachelor of International Relations and Diplomacy in 2007 from Nkumba University, a private university in Entebbe, Uganda. She also obtained her Master’s degree in Arts in International Relations from the same institution.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Susan Amero worked as a sales executive and receptionist in 1998. She worked as a VIP assistant at the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority between 1999 and 2009.
She was elected the woman Member of Parliament of Amuria district in 2011 on the NRM ticket. In 2016, she was reelected and won the election with 33,891 votes.
And in 2021, she again won the elections by 20,284 votes as an independent after being beaten in the NRM primaries by Acen Rhoda.
Achievements and Awards
Hon. Susan Amero is a Member of the Parliamentary committee on Trade, Tourism and Industry. She is also a member of the National Economy Committee.
Controversies
In July 2019, Hon. Susan Amero was appointed to the People Power leadership’s coordination team, to lead the Teso People Power team ahead of the 2021 elections which were prepared and presented to the public in Magerere, Gayaza, and Wakiso districts without her knowledge despite being an NRM member to which she declined.
Amero added that she could not be the coordinator of a protest group whose initiatives she is unaware of and that she had not been educated on the true goals of People Power.
“I was away, and I first learned about my appointment on social media. If one becomes a coordinator, one is supposed to move as a team. I have not consulted my people. Second, I have not consulted my people about whether I should leave the NRM or not, because I am the NRM’s flag bearer in Amuria, and I cannot make such a decision without first listening to the views of my people,” she explained.
Amero went on to say that her disagreements with the NRM party arise when they bring up issues that do not benefit her people but regardless she was still an NRM cadre.
In November 2021, around 9.30 a.m. a Mercedes Benz belonging to Amero caused a false bomb scare at parliament when it collapsed back into a standing position with a loud bang.
This happened three days after a terror attack on Parliament Avenue (IPS Building) and another at the Central Police Station (CPS) in Kampala that killed seven people and injured 37 others.
The loud bang sent workers in the parliament parking lot and building fleeing for their lives. One member of the parliamentary staff rushed for a fire extinguisher and ran towards the car, only to discover that no fire had accompanied the loud sound.
Within two minutes, two police sniffer dogs were brought in to search before she arrived to explain the situation.
Amero claims she simply raised the car while driving through the potholes and forgot to return it to its normal standing position. According to Amero, if the car is not moving and has been packed for a few minutes, it automatically pulls back down.
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