Sulaiman Kyebakoze Madada is a

Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

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and

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. He is the State Minister for the Elderly and the Disabled in the Ugandan Cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 1 June 2006. In the cabinet reshuffle of 16 February 2009, and that of 27 May 2011, he retained his cabinet post. He is also the elected Member of Parliament, representing Bbaale County,

Kayunga District Kayunga District is a district in Central Uganda. It is named after its chief town, Kayunga. Geography Kayunga District is bordered by Amolatar District to the north, Buyende District to the northeast, Kamuli District to the east, Jinja Distr ...

. He has represented that constituency continuously since 2001.

Background and education

He was born in

on 11 November 1961. Sulaiman Madada holds a

Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...

in Mass Communication degree, obtained in 2009, from

Kampala International University Kampala International University (KIU) is a private, not-for-profit institution based in Uganda. It was established in 2001 and assumed chartered status in 2009. In pursuit of the dream to raise the next generation of problem solvers for the Ea ...

(KIU). His degree of

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in Development Administration & Management was awarded in 2011, also by KIU.

Work experience

From 1986 until 1992, he worked as a Broadcast Executive at a radio station. Sometime between 1992 and 2001, he joined politics and was elected to represent Bbaale County,

, in the parliamentary elections of 2001, serving in that capacity until 2006. In 2006, he was re-elected to Parliament unopposed. On 1 June 2006, he was appointed State Minister for Disabilities. He maintains that post as of February 2015.

Personal information

He is married. He belongs to the

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. He is reported to have a special interest in

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ing, and the

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References

External links

Website of the Parliament of Uganda

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