George William Thembo Nyombi is a Ugandan

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and

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. He is a former State Minister for Information Technology in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 27 May 2011. He replaced Alintuma Nsambu, who was dropped from the Cabinet. Prior to that, he served as the State Minister for Luweero Triangle in the Office of the Prime Minister, from 2009 until 2011. Nyombi Thembo is also a former

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(MP), for "Kassanda County South",

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. He has continuously represented the constituency since 2001.

Background

He was born on 31 July 1964 in

, in a family of thirteen siblings. His father was Erisa Zziwa Bosomungho, from the Ndomboli royal family in Zenzeka, Boma, in the

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. His mother was Eseza Ziribasanga, who also had a Congolese background. The father migrated to

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in 1924, due to social and political upheavals in the region and finally settled in Kassanda, Singo County, in modern-day Mubende District.

Education

He attended Lubiri Secondary School in Kampala, for his A-Level education. Thembo Nyombi graduated with a

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degree from

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, the oldest and largest of Uganda's public universities. He holds a diploma in project planning and management from

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in the

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and a postgraduate diploma in financial management from

Uganda Martyrs University Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) is a private University affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church in Uganda. The University is owned by the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Uganda. It is licensed by the Uganda National Council fo ...

(UMU) in Uganda. His degree of

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was awarded by UMU.

Work experience

Between 1990 and 1996, Thembo Nyombi was a part-time economics teacher at Uphill College, a high school in Uganda. He worked as an analyst, planning officer and senior planning officer for the Uganda Railways Corporation during the 1990s. Between 1995 and 2001, he worked at a

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, Transport Rehabilitation Project (Railway Component), at Kampala City Council. He was elected to the Ugandan Parliament in 2001, representing Kassanda County South in

. That same year, he was appointed Minister of State for Education and Sports (Primary Education). In 2006, he was re-elected to parliament and was appointed to his present cabinet post.

Personal details

He is a member of the

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political party. Thembo Nyombi was married to Prisca Mashengyero Thembo. On the evening of Saturday, 28 July 2012, at about 10pm, she was killed in an automobile accident when the SUV she was driving was struck by another vehicle at ''Bwebajja'', on the Kampala-Entebbe Road.

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