Phillip Wafula Oguttu was born on 21 December 1952 and is a Ugandan journalist and politician.
25 Facts About Wafula Oguttu
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Wafula Oguttu is a former Leader of Opposition in the Ugandan Parliament.
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Wafula Oguttu was appointed to that position on 31 January 2014, replacing Nandala Mafabi, and held it until June 2016 when he handed over the position to Winnie Kiiza.
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Wafula Oguttu is a member of Uganda's opposition party Forum for Democratic Change for which he is the spokesperson.
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Wafula Oguttu is one of the co-founders of the Daily Monitor, a privately owned English-language daily newspaper in Uganda.
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Wafula Oguttu's name "Oguttu" in the Samia culture is given to someone born on the veranda or in the garden behind a house.
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Wafula Oguttu's father died in 1960 when he was a primary two pupil.
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Wafula Oguttu moved to present day Bugiri in Busoga in 1980 and fully transformed himself into a naturalized Musoga.
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Wafula Oguttu attended Lumino Mill Hill Primary School, Bukedi College Kachonga, and Teso College Aloet for his primary and secondary education.
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Wafula Oguttu holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Political Economy degree from Beijing University.
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Wafula Oguttu holds a Certificate in Swahili Communication Skills, obtained in 1978 from the University of Dar es Salaam.
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Wafula Oguttu holds a postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Cardiff.
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Wafula Oguttu started his working career in 1973 as a banking assistant at the Bank of Uganda.
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Wafula Oguttu was an editor for a Tanzania publishing house from 1977 until 1979.
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Wafula Oguttu went on to work as an assistant editor and then chief editor for Weekly Topic, an English language newspaper, from 1979 until 1992.
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Wafula Oguttu served as an assistant lecturer at Makerere University between 1981 and 1985.
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Wafula Oguttu is the executive chairman of Santa Lucia Basic School.
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Wafula Oguttu continued to be very active in media politics in the 1980s when he was then the editor in chief of the aforesaid newspaper.
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Wafula Oguttu then founded the Daily Monitor that same year, as an anti-government newspaper at the time.
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Wafula Oguttu ran the Daily Monitor as the chief editor until his retirement in 2004.
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Wafula Oguttu ran for his first parliamentary elections in 2006 on the FDC ticket, standing in the constituency of Bukhooli Country Central but ultimately losing to Fred Mukisa.
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Wafula Oguttu was unable to hold the seat in the 2016 general election however, losing out to the NRM's Solomon Silwany.
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Wafula Oguttu is currently married to Alice Wafula Oguttu with five sons and two daughters.
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Wafula Oguttu however had a second wife, Freda, who died in July 2012 with whom he fathered two sons.
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Wafula Oguttu has supported farmers in Bugiri District on numerous occasions.