Rose Namayanja Explained

Birth Name:Rose Namayanja
Office:Former Minister of Information and National Guidance
President:Yoweri Museveni
Primeminister:Amama Mbabazi and Ruhakana Rugunda
Term Start:23 May 2013
Term End:1 March 2015
Predecessor:Mary Karooro Okurut
Successor:Jim Muhwezi
Office2:Minister of State for Luweero Triangle
President2:Yoweri Museveni
Term Start2:24 May 2011
Term End2:23 May 2013
Primeminister2:Amama Mbabazi
Predecessor2:Thembo Nyombi
Successor2:Sarah Ndobooli Kataike
Office3:Member of Parliament from Nakaseke District
Term Start3:May 2006
Term End3:February 2016
Predecessor3:District created
Successor3:Sarah Najjuma
Office4:Member of Parliament for Youth Central Region
Term Start4:May 2001
Term End4:May 2006
Successor4:Kasozi Joseph Muyomba
Birth Date:18 August 1975
Birth Place:Kalagi, Uganda
Party:National Resistance Movement
Occupation:Deputy Secretary General of the National Resistance Movement
Alma Mater:Makerere University


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Namayanja Rose Nsereko (born 18 August 1975) is a Ugandan lawyer, columnist, author, security sector manager and politician. She is the current Deputy Secretary General of Uganda's ruling party.[1]

Namayanja is a former National Treasurer of Uganda's ruling party, The National Resistance Movement (NRM). She is also the former Minister of Information and National Guidance in the Cabinet of Uganda, a position she held from 23 May 2013,[2] until 1 March 2015.[3] Prior to that, she served as Minister of State for Luwero Triangle in the Prime Minister's office, from 27 May 2011 until 24 May 2013. She replaced Thembo Nyombi, who was appointed State Minister for Information Technology.[4] Namayanja also served as the elected Member of Parliament for Nakaseke District Women Representative from 2006 to 2016.[5] She was a founder member of the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD), the youth wing of Uganda's Democratic Party (DP) that was known for its radicalism in the mid-1990s.[6] [7]

Background and education

Namayanja was born in Kalagi, a village in Nakaseke District (one of the Luwero Triangle districts) on 18 August 1975 to Jackson Ssebowa and Catherine Namirembe Ssebowa. A Muganda by tribe, she was born in an Anglican family. She converted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church while in high school. She attended Kabowa Church of Uganda Primary School, for her primary education and Light College Katikamu for her middle and high school education. She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (1998) and Bachelor of Laws (2011), both from Makerere University, the oldest and largest public university in Uganda. She also holds the degree of Master of Science (2010), in Security Sector Management, obtained from and Cranfield University, the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.[7]

Career

Prior to her senior political career, Namayanja worked as an academic registrar for Light Bureau of Accountancy in 1998. Between 1999 and 2001, she worked as a political officer at State House Kampala. She started her political career as a student and youth leader at Makerere University in 1995. She was a founder member of the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD), the youth wing of Uganda's Democratic Party (DP). According to her, she drew her inspiration from the then young people in politics like the late Nobel Mayombo and further from the powerful women in politics like the former vice president of Uganda, Specioza Naigaga Wandira Kazibwe, Winnie Byanyima, Janat Mukwaya and Cecilia Ogwal. The desire to make a contribution to rebuilding Luwero Triangle, her homeland and the theatre of Yoweri Museveni's liberation war made her aim for more influential political positions.

In 2001 at the age of 25, she was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) representing the youth for Uganda's Central Region, which includes Luwero Triangle, for a five-year term. In 2006, having crossed to the NRM after the introduction of Multi-Party Politics and the creation of Nakaseke District the previous year, Namayanja stood unopposed for the position of Woman MP for Nakaseke District and was reelected in 2011 for a five-year term. In 2011, she was appointed for her first ministerial position as Minister of State for Luwero Triangle in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). She held that portfolio until she was appointed Minister of information and National Guidance on 23 May 2013,[4] [7] [8] a position she held until 1 May 2015, when she was dropped from the Cabinet in consideration of the fact that she had been appointed National Treasurer of the National Resistance Movement in January 2015.[9] [10] Namayanja did not contest the 2016 general election. Namayanja is the current Deputy Secretary General of the National Resistance Movement as appointed by the Chairman in 2021.

Personal life

Rose Namayanja is married to Charles Nsereko. They were married in a Seventh-day Adventist ceremony on 2 September 2002. She was the Chairperson of the Uganda Parliamentary Forum for Children.[11] She retired from active elective politics in 2016.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: NEC approves Lumumba, Namayanja for NRM jobs. Daily Monitor. 18 August 2015. 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304042420/http://mobile.monitor.co.ug/News/News/NEC-approves-Lumumba--Namayanja-for-NRM-jobs/-/2466686/2582190/-/format/xhtml/-/5pgaa1z/-/index.html. dead.
  2. Web site: . 24 May 2013 . President Museveni Makes Minor Cabinet Changes . New Vision . 10 February 2015 . Kampala).
  3. Web site: Full Cabinet List As At 1 March 2015. 1 March 2015. Daily Monitor (Kampala). 3 March 2015. 9 July 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170709092825/http://www.monitor.co.ug/blob/view/-/2639388/data/956667/-/oq6gpdz/-/cabinet.pdf. dead.
  4. Web site: Comprehensive List of New Cabinet Appointments & Dropped Ministers. 27 May 2011. Facebook.com. 10 February 2015.
  5. News: Over 20 MPs bow out of 2016 race. 25 May 2015. Informer East Africa. 28 May 2017.
  6. Web site: Sejusa Makes Star Out of Lawyer Luzige. Edris. Kiggundu. 15 September 2013. 10 February 2015. The Observer (Uganda).
  7. Web site: Profile of Namayanja Rose Nsereko: Woman Representative for Nakaseke District. 10 February 2015. 2011. Parliament of Uganda (POU). 4 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001101/http://www.parliament.go.ug/mpdata/mps.hei?p=f&n=t&details=t&j=187&const=Woman+Representative&dist_id=14&distname=Nakaseke. dead.
  8. Web site: Government Has Made Gains In Corruption Fight. 10 February 2015. Rose Namayanja. Nsereko. The Observer (Uganda).
  9. Web site: How Regions Shared Cabinet Positions. 3 March 2015. 3 March 2015. Daily Monitor (Kampala).
  10. Web site: Will NRM officers leave the House? Unlikely! . The Observer (Uganda).
  11. Web site: Uganda: Launch of Campaign Against Child Sacrifice . Bettercarenetwork.org . 10 June 2009 . Uganda Government News . 10 February 2015 . Kampala, Uganda.
  12. Web site: . NRM's Namayanja showing the way for post-politics leadership . 3 July 2017 . The Observer Uganda . 27 July 2022 . Kampala, Uganda.