Rt. Hon. Rugunda hands over office to Nabbanja

Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Uganda Rt.Hon. Dr. Ruhakana Ruganda has today officially handed over the office to the new Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Robinah Nabbanja.

Ruhakana Rugunda has been Prime Minister of Uganda since 2014 to 2021. He held a long series of cabinet posts under the NRM government beginning in 1986. He served as Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1996 and as Minister of Internal Affairs from 2003 to 2009. Subsequently, he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2009 to 2011 and Minister of Health from 2013 to 2014. He is currently the Envoy For Special Duties In The Office Of The President of Uganda.

Speaking at the handover ceremony, Ruganda praised Nabbanja as a well versed mobiliser and cadre who will be able to monitor and implement government programs.

Rugunda also thanked the NRM government for embracing women emancipation having appointed 45% women in the new cabinet.

The new Prime Minister Rt. Hon Robinah Nabbanja who was sworn in on 21^st June 2021 retrieted President Museveni’s remarks of having a cabinate that is focused to do service delivery and fighting corruption.

She encouraged the Ministers to work as a team to see the implementation of government programs.

Robinah Nabbanja was born in present-day Kakumiro District, on 17 December 1969. She attended Nkooko Primary School. She then studied at St. Edward's Secondary School Bukuumi, for both her O-Level and A-Level studies, obtaining both the Uganda Certificate of Education and the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education from there.

 

Between 1990 and 2000, Nabbanja obtained certificates and diplomas in leadership, management and development studies, from various institutions, including Uganda Martyrs University, Uganda Management Institute, the Islamic University in Uganda and the National Leadership Institute Kyankwanzi. Her Bachelor of Democracy and Development Studies and her Master of Arts in Development Studies were both awarded by Uganda Martyrs University.

 

From 1993 until 1996, Nabbanja was a school teacher at Uganda Martyrs Secondary School Kakumiro. She then served as District Councillor, representing Nkooko Sub-County, in what was Kibaale District at the time, from 1998 until 2001. She concurrently served as the Secretary for Health, Gender and Community Services for the district during that period.

 

She then spent the next ten years (2001–2010) serving as a Resident District Commissioner in the districts of Pallisa, Busia and Budaka. In 2011, she joined Uganda's electoral politics by successfully contesting for Kibaale District Women Representative in the 9th Parliament (2011–2016). When Kakumiro District as created in 2016, she contested for the Women Constituency in the new district and won again. She is the incumbent MP.

 

In the cabinet reshuffle on 14 December 2019, Nabbanja was appointed State Minister of Health (General Duties).