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FULL LIST & PROFILES: Here are Speakers of Uganda’s Parliament Since Independence

Samuel Kamugisha by Samuel Kamugisha
May 25, 2021
in Archives, Featured, National, People, Politics
Updated August 24, 2022

On May 24, members of Uganda’s 11th Parliament elected Omoro County MP Jacob L’Okori Oulanyah as speaker, making him the 10th speaker and head of the legislative arm of government since Independence. About a year later, Oulanyah died. Anita Among replaced him as speaker; Thomas Tayebwa became deputy speaker. 

Here are Uganda’s Parliament Speakers since Independence

PROFILES OF UGANDA’S PARLIAMENT SPEAKERS SINCE INDEPENDENCE

Sir John Bowes Griffin (1962-1963)

Grif­fin was Ugan­da’s first post-independence Speaker of Par­lia­ment.

He had previously served as Chief Jus­tice of Uganda from 1952-1958.

Bowes Grif­fin was born on 19 April 1903 to Sir Charles James Grif­fin, and held sev­eral po­si­tions in dif­fer­ent colonies in­clud­ing be­ing the At­tor­ney Gen­eral in the Ba­hamas in the mid-1930s and act­ing as Gov­er­nor and Chief Jus­tice for var­i­ous pe­ri­ods.

He handed over the Speakership of the first Par­lia­ment to Naren­dra M. Pa­tel in May 1963.

Naren­dra M. Pa­tel (1963- Jan­u­ary 1971)

Speaker Narendra Patel

Narendra became Speaker in May 1963, replacing Sir Griffin who had assumed the position at independence the previous year.

Patel, the first non-European to hold the position is remembered for having reigned during the most chaotic constitutional period when President Obote overthrew the independence constitution and later replaced it with the 1967 Pigeon-hole constitution.

His reign ended when Obote was overthrown by Idi Amin Dada in 1971.

Prof. Ed­ward Rugu­mayo (1979-80)

Prof Edward Rugumayo

Prof Rugumayo was nominated by the Moshi conference in Tanzania to chair the national assembly while in exile in Zambia.

He had been a minister in Amin’s government between 1971 and 73.

He would chair the Na­tional Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil (NCC) which was the in­terim Par­lia­ment of Uganda Na­tional Lib­er­a­tion Front, com­posed of 32 Mem­bers and later ex­panded to 125.

Fol­low­ing the over­throw of Idi Amin, NCC con­tin­ued to be the supreme leg­isla­tive body un­til the gen­eral elec­tions of 1980.

Prof Rugu­may­o’s chair­man­ship of the coun­cil ended in 1980, af­ter which he served as min­is­ter in Pres­i­dent Mu­sev­eni’s gov­ern­ment in dif­fer­ent port­fo­lios in­clud­ing; Trade, Tourism, In­dus­try and In­ter­nal af­fairs.

He is cur­rently the chan­cel­lor of the Uni­ver­sity of the Moun­tains of the Moon in Fort Por­tal, Uganda.

Fran­cis K. Bu­ta­gira (1980-1985)

Francis Butagira

Mr Bu­ta­gira, born on 22nd No­vem­ber 1942 in Mbarara Dis­trict, and a Har­vard Uni­ver­sity grad­u­ate of Mas­ters of Laws, had been a mem­ber of the Na­tional Con­sul­ta­tive Coun­cil for two years from 1979 and a High Court judge be­tween 1974 and 1979.

He served as the Speaker of the 4th Par­lia­ment tak­ing over from Prof Rugu­mayo in 1980 un­til the mil­i­tary coup by Gen. Bazil­lio Okello over­threw the UPC regime on 27 July 1985.

He lost the po­si­tion of Speaker but he con­tin­ued to be a Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment from 1989 to 1996.

He was later made an am­bas­sador to Ger­many, a po­si­tion he held un­til re­cently when he was re­lieved of his du­ties.

He be­came the Per­ma­nent Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the United Na­tions in July 2003.

Yow­eri Kaguta Mu­sev­eni (1986 to 1996)

When Museveni was Speaker of Uganda's Parliament; See Full List and Profiles of Speakers since Independence
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was also Speaker or Chairman of the National Resistance Council (NRC). Courtesy Photo

Pres­i­dent Mu­sev­eni served as the chair­man of the Na­tional Re­sis­tance Coun­cil (NRC), the 5th Par­lia­ment, af­ter suc­cess­fully over­throw­ing the gov­ern­ment of Bazil­lio Okello.

The NRC was not a na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive coun­cil and had 38 his­tor­i­cal mem­bers of the Na­tional Re­sis­tance Army.

It was later ex­panded to in­clude rep­re­sen­ta­tives from around the coun­try.

In 1993, the NRC passed the Con­stituent As­sem­bly Statute that es­tab­lished and pro­vided for the elec­tion of the Con­stituent As­sem­bly Del­e­gates to work on the for­mu­la­tion of the new con­sti­tu­tion.

James Wa­pakhab­ulo (1996 to 1998)

Wa­pak­ab­ulo was born on 23rd March 1945, and was the first elected Speaker of Par­lia­ment af­ter the pro­mul­ga­tion of the 1995 Con­sti­tu­tion of the Re­pub­lic of Uganda.

This was the 6th Par­lia­ment.

He is re­mem­bered for hav­ing strongly op­posed the lift­ing of term lim­its in 2005 which led to his fallout with Pres­i­dent Mu­sev­eni.

He was ap­pointed sec­ond deputy Prime Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs in 2001

Wapakhabulo died on March 27, 2004.

 Fran­cis Ayume (1998- 2001)

Francis Ayume

Fran­cis Ayume, a lawyer, was born on Au­gust 18, 1940 and served as the Koboko Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment from 1996 un­til his death in a road ac­ci­dent in 2004.

He was Speaker in the 6th Par­lia­ment hav­ing taken over the speak­er­ship from Rt. Hon Wa­pakhab­ulo.

Af­ter his speakership reign, Ayume was ap­pointed At­tor­ney Gen­eral in 2001.

Ed­ward Ki­wanuka Ssekandi (2001 to 2011)

Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi

Born on Jan­u­ary 19, 1943, Mr Ssekandi be­came Speaker in 2001 and steered both the 7th and 8th Par­lia­ments.

He joined ac­tive par­lia­men­tary pol­i­tics when he was ap­pointed as a mem­ber to the Constituent As­sem­bly in 1993 whose work re­sulted into the 1995 Con­sti­tu­tion of the Repub­lic of Uganda.

He was later elected MP for Bukoto County Cen­tral, Masaka, in 1996, a con­stituency he has rep­re­sents to date.

He first served as Deputy Speaker un­der the late James Wa­pakhab­ulo from 1996 to 2001.

He now serves as the Vice Pres­i­dent of the Re­pub­lic of Uganda, a po­si­tion he has oc­cu­pied since 2011.

Re­becca Al­it­wala Kadaga (2011- 2021)

Rebecca Kadaga

Kadaga is a former Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, and current Woman Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ka­muli Dis­trict.

She served as speaker from 2011 to 2021. 

Prior to that, she was Deputy Speaker from 2001 to 2011.

Ms Kadaga holds Bachelors of Laws, a Diploma in Wom­en’s Law and a Mas­ter of Arts De­gree in Wom­en’s Law.

She served as the chair­per­son of the Uni­ver­sity Coun­cil for Mbarara Uni­ver­sity, be­tween 1993 and 1996.

In 1996, Hon Kadaga served as Sec­re­tary Gen­eral of the East African Women Par­lia­men­tar­i­ans As­so­ci­a­tion and in 1996 to 1998, she was the Min­is­ter of State for Re­gional Co­op­er­a­tion (Africa and the Mid­dle East).

She then served as Min­is­ter of State for Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Avi­a­tion, from 1998 un­til 1999.

Be­tween 1999 and 2000 she was the Min­is­ter for Par­lia­men­tary Af­fairs.

Jacob Oulanyah (May 24, 2021 to March 22, 2022)

Oulanyah was ekecred speaker in May 2021. He passed on in March 2022. Although, health minister explained Oulanyah’s cause of death, his father insisted his son had been poisoned. (See Details Here, There and Over There). 
 
You can read Oulanyah’s profile Here.  

Anita Annet Among 

Among replaced Oulanyah as speaker of Parliament. Read her profile Here. 

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