Agnes Ameede (born 12 June 1970) is a Ugandan politician who serves as the elected Member of Parliament for

Pallisa District Pallisa District is a district in Eastern Uganda which was carved out of Tororo district in 1991. Like most other Ugandan districts, it is named after its main town, Pallisa, where the district headquarters are located. Location Pallisa Distric ...

Women in the 10th Ugandan Parliament (20162021).

Early life and education

Agnes Ameede was born in

, on 12 June 1970, to Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Olaki, as their fifth child, out of the twelve children they had together. Her father was a primary school teacher and her mother was a housewife. She attended ''Kabwangasi Primary School'', where her father was the headmaster. She then joined ''St. Paul's College'' in the city of

Mbale Mbale is a city in the Eastern Region of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial center of Mbale District and the surrounding sub-region. Location Mbale is approximately northeast of Kampala, Uganda's capital city, on ...

, where she competed her O-Level studies. She continued her studies at

Tororo Girls School Tororo Girls Secondary School, commonly known as Tororo Girls School (TGS), is an all-girls boarding school covering grades 8 -13 in the Eastern Region, Uganda, Eastern Region of Uganda. Location TGS is in the town of Tororo, about southeast of ...

, where she completed her A-Level education, graduating in 1991, with a

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. In 1994, she graduated from

Makerere University Makerere University (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922, and the oldest currently active university in East Africa. It became an independent national university in ...

, Uganda's oldest and largest

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, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Later, she obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the

Uganda Management Institute Uganda Management Institute (UMI) is a government-owned national center for training, research, and consultancy in the field of management and administration in Uganda. It is one of the nine public universities and degree-awarding institutions in ...

(UMI). She followed that with

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degree, also from

. Her third degree is a Master of Science in Development Management, awarded by

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, in the United Kingdom. She also has a Certificate in Administrative Law, obtained from the

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in Kampala.

Career

Before politics

In 1996, Agnes Ameede was hired by the Ugandan Ministry of Internal Affairs as an Immigration Officer, and posted to the Immigration Office at

Malaba, Uganda Malaba, Uganda is a town in Tororo District in the Eastern Region, Uganda, Eastern Region of Uganda, on its eastern border with Kenya. It sits adjacent from Malaba, Kenya, across the Malaba River that marks the border between Uganda and Kenya ...

. She served there for three years and was then transferred to the Ministry's headquarters in

Kampala Kampala (, ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,875,834 (2024) and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kampala, Kawempe Division, Kawempe, Makindy ...

, Uganda's capital. In 2003, she was transferred to

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, serving there until 2005. In 2006 she was promoted to ''Supervisor, Inspection and Legal'', and transferred back to the Kampala headquarters. In 2009, she was posted to

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, as an Immigration Advisor, working there with the United Nations until the end of 2010. From Liberia, she was posted to Entebbe Airport as Supervisor, Inspection and Legal. In 2015, she was promoted to Senior Immigration Officer. Later that year, she resigned from Immigration and joined active elective Ugandan politics.

As a politician

In the 2016 national election cycle, Agnes Ameede successfully contested for the

Women Constituency, in the Ugandan Parliament. She ran as a member of the ruling

National Resistance Movement The National Resistance Movement (; abbr. NRM) has been the ruling party in Uganda since 1986. History The National Resistance Movement (NRM) was founded as a liberation movement that waged a guerrilla war through its rebel wing National ...

political party. One of the losing candidates, Catherine Achola, challenged the results in court, but Agnes Ameede prevailed there as well. In the 10th Parliament, she is a member of (a) the parliamentary Committee On Commissions, State Authorities & State Enterprises (COSASE) and (b) the parliamentary Committee On East African Community Affairs (COEACA).

Family

Agnes Ameede is married to Lawrence Omulen and together are the parents to three daughters.

References

External links

Website of the Parliament of Uganda
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