Anita Annet Among (born 23 November 1973) is a Ugandan accountant, lawyer and politician who is the incumbent Speaker of the 11th

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(2022–2026). She also concurrently serves as the elected member of parliament for the

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Women Constituency, the same position she held in the 10th Parliament (2016–2021). She was in FDC party before she joined the ruling NRM where she was voted as the Deputy Speaker of the 10th Parliament.

Background and education

Among was born in

on 23 November 1973. She attended local schools for her elementary and secondary education. She graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, from

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, in 2005. In 2008, she was awarded a

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degree, also by Makerere University.
In 2018, Among graduated from Kampala International University, with a

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degree. At that time she was in the process of attaining qualification as a Chartered Certified Accountant.

Career before politics

From 1998 until 2006, Ms Among worked at

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, one of the large

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s in the country. At the time she left in 2006, she had risen to the rank of branch manager. For the ten years prior to her election to Parliament, she served as a lecturer in accounting, at Kampala International University.

Political career

For two parliamentary election cycles in 2007, when

was created, and in 2011, Among lost the District Woman Representative seat to Rose Akol of the

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political party. Among, a long-time member of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change political party, ran in 2016 as an independent candidate. She won and is the incumbent MP. In 2020, she joined the National Resistance Movement (NRM) after falling out with her party FDC and won the party primaries. In the 2021 general elections, Among was one of the few legislators who was elected unopposed to join the 11th Parliament though her victory was contentious because the electoral commission blocked some of her competitors from nomination. Among declared her bid for the Deputy Speakership of the 11th parliament of Uganda. Among was elected as the new Speaker of the parliament of Uganda on the March 25, 2022 replacing the Jacob Oulanyah, the former Speaker of the Parliament of Uganda, who died in

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, Washington State. In 2023, she urged members of the Ugandan National Assembly to support a new bill that would make the mere fact of identifying oneself as LGBT illegal and risk up to ten years of incarceration.

Other considerations

In the 10th Parliament, Mrs. Among served as the Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Commissions, Statutory Authorities and State Enterprises (COSASE).

Personal life

Anita Among recently introduced her new husband

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to her parents in a traditional marriage ceremony. She also has a son with one of Forum For Democratic Change (FDC's) officials in western Uganda, Patrick Baguma Atenyi.

References

External links

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