Grace Freedom Kwiyucwiny, also Grace Kwiyucwiny, is a

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n politicianwho serves as the State Minister for Northern Uganda in the Ugandan Cabinet. She was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016. She also served as the

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representing the

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Background and education

She was born in

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, in the Northern Region of Uganda. She attended ''Lower Zombo Primary School'' and ''Warr Girls School'' for her Uganda Certificate of Education(UCE), before transferring to Tororo Girls School for her

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education In Uganda, students receive the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) when they finish the 2-year upper secondary school which is also called the HSC. It is comparable to GCE A-Level in the UK. UACE is also known colloquially as "A-Leve ...

(UACE). She studied at

Makerere University Makerere University, Kampala (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of ni ...

, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management and a

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Career

She is an active community leader in her

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, especially among women. She previously served as the

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of Nebbi women's community. She contested for the Nebbi Women's seat in parliament before and had lost. She contested again in Zombo District, after the two districts split and she won in 2011. She was re-elected in 2016. She lost in 2020 polls for Women's representative in the Parliament of Uganda for Zombo District. She was the first Woman Constituency Member of Parliament that Zombo District elected, since it was carved out of Nebbi District in 2009. On 6 June 2016, she was appointed State Minister for Northern Uganda.

Duties

One of the tasks she was handed as State Minister for Northern Uganda, was her selection to the committee to investigate the alleged plunder of Zoka Forest in Adjumani District. The four-person team, was selected by Prime Minister

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, and is chaired by Mary Karooro Okurut, the Cabinet Minister for General Duties in the Office of the Prime Minister. Other members are

Betty Amongi Betty Amongi Akena, (née Betty Amongi Ongom), but commonly known as Betty Amongi, is a Ugandan politician. She is the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development in the Cabinet of Uganda, as of 9 June 2021. Previously, she served as the ...

, the Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development and

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, the Minister for Water and Environment.

References

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Career

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