Robert Mugabe Kakyebezi alias Etaara is a Ugandan politician, teacher, and journalist. He is the mayor of

Mbarara City Mbarara City is a city in the Western Region of Uganda and the second largest city in Uganda after Kampala. The city is divided into 6 boroughs of Kakoba Division, Kamukuzi Division, Nyamitanga Division, Biharwe Division, Kakiika Division, Nyaka ...

, One of the largest cities in South Western Uganda.

Background and education

At a tender age, his parents migrated to the current Kazo district in a village called Kantaganya, Kanoni subcounty , later joined Kantaganya primary school where he completed his primary seven. He then joined Makobore High School in Rukungiri for secondary education but because of school fees problems, he dropped out in Senior Three and joined Nyakagyeme Secondary School which was affordable and its where he completed

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. Thereafter he joined Rugarama Secondary School in

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for

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 ...

, and there after enrolled for a Diploma in Secondary Education at National Teachers’ College,

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, graduating in 1998.Meanwhile, when he started getting some good money, in 2012 he enrolled for Bachelor of Social Work and

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studies at

Bishop Stuart University Bishop Stuart University (BSU) is a private, not-for-profit, multi-campus university in Uganda. Location BSU has its main campus, measuring approximately , at ''Kakoba Hill'', off of Buremba Road, approximately east of downtown Mbarara. The ...

Mbarara Mbarara City is a city in the Western Region of Uganda and the second largest city in Uganda after Kampala. The city is divided into 6 boroughs of Kakoba Division, Kamukuzi Division, Nyamitanga Division, Biharwe Division, Kakiika Division, ...

, and graduated on 16 October 2015.

Radio Personality

In early 2002, Kakyebezi was given a job on Radio West in comic shows of Owatutanga aheru and Akagwe. He spent over fourteen years working on Radio West marking him one of longest serving Presenters at the Radio Station, before Politics.

Politics

In 2015, Kakyebezi contested and won the

city mayoral sit in

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primary Elections. In 2019, NRM supporters urged him not contest in 2021

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. Kakyebezi won the FDC candidate, Stanley katembeya in the general election in 2016.

Controversies

In 2018,He was allegedly involved in a car

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which left two people injured and one dead. In June 2019, he was sued for allegedly issuing defamatory pictures. In 2017, he was charged for accountability on over 300 million

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wooden bridge funds. Early 2019, he was also grilled over unapproved Ushs1.7 billion spent on Street

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s. In March 2019, he was criticised for changing the Ankole symbolic cow Rusiina.

References

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