PROFILE: Who exactly is Lucy Nakyobe Mbonye, Museveni’s Vice President pick according to leaked cabinet list?

A leaked cabinet list published by Daily Monitor indicates State House Comptroller Lucy Nakyobe Mbonye is President Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni’s Vice president pick.

Vice President Lucy Nakyobe! See Leaked Cabinet List

If the leaked cabinet list is anything to go by, Lucy Nakyobe could replace Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi as Vice President in the coming days.

That will make her Uganda’s second female vice president under Museveni, and since independence.

The first was Specioza Wandira Kazibwe.

But who exactly is Lucy Nakyobe Mbonye?

LUCY NAKYOBE MBONYE PROFILE

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences (Makerere University)

1995: Post Graduate Diploma (Uganda Management Institute)

1999: Master’s degree in Public Administration and Management (Makerere University)

May 1991: Law for Administrative Officers

December 1991: Data Management short course

June 2009: Leadership and Change management under Uganda-Ontario Partnership.

Attended the Good Governance program

May 2007: Course on Indicators for Policy management- MDGS and Statistical Literacy- May 2007

March 2007: Leadership and team building Course under British Council.

October 2006: Coaching and Mentoring under British Council

May 2003: Basic Cadre Development Course, National leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi

June 2003: Specification Writing

August 2003: Contract Management August 2002: Advance leadership skills for women, Johannesburg

May 2002: Specification, preparation and writing

June 2002: Course on Bid preparation and tender evaluation

Career

1989-1990: Research assistant on the behavioural risk studies among Baganda women under Case Western Reserve University/Makerere University collaborative research project

1990-91: Assistant Secretary of the Environment Protection Department

1991-92: Assistant Secretary, Energy and Natural Resources Department, State House

1993-1994: Assistant Secretary, Tourism and Wild Life, State House

1994-1995: Assistant Secretary, Office of the Vice President

1995-98: Assistant Secretary, State House

Undersecretary, Finance and Administration, Accounts Department, State House

2010: Replaced Richard Muhinda as State House Comptroller. In charge of State House administration

June 2021: Reportedly favorite for vice president job

Spouse: Prof Anthony Mbonye, former Ministry of Health Director General of Health Services

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