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11 Facts About Frank Tumwebaze

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Frank Kagyigyi Tumwebaze is a Ugandan educator and politician of the National Resistance Movement political party.

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Frank Tumwebaze is the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, effective 8 June 2021.

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Frank Tumwebaze previously served as Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, in the Ugandan Cabinet.

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Frank Tumwebaze was appointed to that position on 14 December 2019.

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Frank Tumwebaze was Minister for the Presidency and Minister for the Kampala Capital City Authority between 2012 and 2016.

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Frank Tumwebaze was automatically appointed Member of Parliament for Kibale County in Kamwenge District when the two other contestants for the seat withdrew under suspicious circumstances.

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Frank Tumwebaze is the fifth-born in a family of seven children.

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Frank Tumwebaze received a Bachelor of Science in education in 1999, from the Mbarara University of Science and Technology.

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Frank Tumwebaze holds a Masters in International and Diplomatic Studies, and a Masters in Public Health obtained in 2005 and 2019 from Makerere University, the oldest university in Uganda.

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Frank Tumwebaze was then brought into State House, where he served as a special presidential assistant for research and information from 2003 until 2005.

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Frank Tumwebaze was elected on the National Resistance Movement political party ticket.