{UAH} WELCOME TO THE UAH FORUM, MS.JUSTINE LUMUMBA

WELCOME TO THE UAH FORUM, MS.JUSTINE LUMUMBA:

Justine Lumumba Kasule is a 41 year old Ugandan politician. She is the current The Government Chief Whip in the Ugandan Cabinet. She was appointed to that position on 27 May 2011. She replaced John Nasasira, who is the Minister for ICT. Justine Lumumba Kasule is also the elected Member of Parliament for Bugiri District Women's Representative. She grew up in Bugiri, in a polygamous family of 18 siblings and her father's four wives.

She did Education at Makerere University such that she is a teacher by profession. She was once an inspector of schools.Fresh from Makerere University, Lumumba used to supervise people four times her senior.she used to ride a motorcycle during her supervisory duties in Bugiri district - something that endeared her to many people. They were shocked that an education officer would ride a motorcycle, a feat earlier viewed as a male preserve.After four years of riding a motorcycle, Lumumba joined politics in 2001 - sealing the journey of a humble Catholic girl whose first trip to Kampala was when she came to pick her admission letter from Makerere University in 1993.

Justine, mostly mistaken by those who don't know her to be a man because of her name - Kasule Lumumba - once said that she tells the truth and "life goes on."Lumumba is her father's name, but it is also supposed to echo the character of the renowned pan-Africanist from DR Congo, Patrice Lumumba, who was brutally murdered for truth-telling, among other attributes. Lumumba also contributed to the frosty debate of "who owns Migingo", a football- pitch-size island in her constituency that has caused a diplomatic row between Uganda and Kenya.

Lumumba had feared politics all her life because in the 1980s, when DP lost the elections, her father, a staunch DP supporter and chairperson of the party in the region, suffered a lot.She is married and she is a mother of two. Word has it that she never misses church on Sunday!

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