BETTY BIGOMBE:WELCOME TO THE UAH FORUM- Forumists, Let us welcome Beti Oyella Bigombe to the UAH forum. Betty Oyella Bigombe, also known as Betty Atuku Bigombe (born 1954), is the current State Minister for Water Resources in the Uganda Cabinet. She was appointed to that position on 27 May 2011.[1] She is also the elected Member of Parliament (MP), representing Amuru District Womens Constituency, in March 2011. Betty Bigombe was born in what was then known as Acholi District in 1954. She is one of 11 children by her father, who was a nurse. She is an ethnic Acholi. Bigombe attended Makerere University, Ugandas oldest university, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Social Science (BA.Soc.Sc). Later she attended the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States. She graduated with the degree of Master of Public Administration (MPA). Her studies at Harvard were sponsored by a Fellowship from the Harvard Institute for International Development From 1981 until 1984, she worked as the Company Secretary of the Uganda Mining Corporation, a government parastatal company. From 1986 until 1996, she served in the Ugandan Parliament as an MP. In 1988, she was appointed State Minister for Northern Uganda, which required her to take up residence in Gulu, the largest city in Ugandas Northern Region. She was tasked with convincing the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) guerilla rebels to lay down their arms, following the failure of military efforts to defeat the rebels. Bigombe initiated contact with the LRA leader Joseph Kony in June 1993. In 1993, she was named Ugandas Woman of the Year for her efforts to end the violence. Despite meeting with Kony, the talks collapsed in February 1994. Soon afterward, the insurgency intensified and no significant efforts towards peace would be made for the next decade. Following a ten year stint in the Uganda Parliament from 1986 until 1996, she failed to win the parliamentary seat for Gulu Municipality in 1996 and left government service. In 2011, 15 years later, she bounced back by winning the parliamentary seat of Amuru District Womens Constituency, on the National Resistance Movement party ticket. She won and is now the incumbent for that seat. -- Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba Stalk my blog at: semuwemba/ Follow me on Twitter: twitter/#!/semuwemba Join me on Facebook: https://facebook/abbey.k.semuwemba
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 02:30:17 +0000
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