The 18 Best Performing Permanent Secretaries in Uganda -2021. On 15th July 2021, President Yoweri Museveni appointed 35 new Permanent Secretaries for Financial Year 2021/2022.
A permanent secretaries has numerous role he or she play in a ministry such as formulating of strategic plans and coordinating of multiple functional areas; tendering advice to the responsible Minister in respect of the business of the Ministry or Department; Initiating implementation of Policies of Government; ensuring proper expenditure of public funds in the Ministry or Department
Between July 2021 and December 2021,some permanent secretaries a lot as regards management of the ministries to work towards attainment of Uganda Vision 2040 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.The survey to determine the best performing permanent secretaries was done by Public Opinions. Public Opinions is a field based firm working towards attainment of Uganda Vision 2040 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through information Dissemination,Research,Public Awareness, training and mentorship, corporate branding and printing, Office Stations and equipments,training and mentorship,etc.
Below are the 18 Best Performing Permanent Secretaries arranged in alphabetical orders published by Public Opinions basing on its survey and field based assessment conducted between August 2021 and December 2021.
- Rosette Byengoma
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs
- Ramathan Ggoobi
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
- Diana Kanzira Atwine
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Health - Mr Vincent Waiswa Bagiire
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Aggrey David Kibenge
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Gender,Labour and Social Development - Gen. Joseph Musanyufu
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Internal Affairs
- KennethOlusegun Omona
Principal Private Secretary to H.E the President - Mr Pius Bigirimana
Permanent Secretary/Secretary of the Judiciary - Mr.Ben Kumumanya
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Local Government - Mr.Alfred Okot Okidi
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Water and Environment - Ms Jane Barekye
State House Comptroller - Mr Waiswa Bageya
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Works and Transport - Haji Yunus Kakande
Secretary Office of the President - Ms.KETTY LAMARO
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Education and Sports
- Ms.Irene Pauline Batebe
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Energy and Minerals Development
- Hon Adolf Mwesige
Clerk to Parliament - Dr.Aminah Zawedde
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of ICT and National Guidance - Maj Gen. David Kasura Kyomukama
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
- Rosette Byengoma
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs
She has been the most influential figure in effectively managing and coordinting the Ministry of Defense and Veterans Affairs to ably preserve, defend and protect the people, property, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Uganda, contributing to regional stability and supporting international peace initiatives.
2.Mr.Ramathan Ggoobi
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
Ramathan Ggoobi is a Ugandan Policy Analyst, a political economist who spearheaded the arm ‘economics that works in Uganda’, economics lecturer, author, consultant and the current Permanent Secretary Ministry of Finance.Ggoobi co-authored several studies on Uganda’s economy. He has lived his dream as an economics teacher and is so passionate about imparting and sharing knowledge with others, particularly the young generation.He tried to change the economic face of Uganda from a complicated and mathematized discipline to user-friendly. Ggoobi says at school, economics appears to be like rocket science, the way it’s taught yet it deals with real-life which would have been embraced by everybody.One time Ggoobi said an economist who advises a person to invest money in Bitcoin Cryptocurrency; one should have a second look at their CVs because their majors were either accounting or finance. According to Ggoobi, Uganda’s number one problem is poor implementation of policies, strategies and laws.
Ramathan Ggoobi was born in Butambala Kitagobwa Nganda. His father was a teacher as well as his mother Lucy Nakibuule but later his father crossed over to civil service while his mother, taught until retirement.
Ggoobi attended Kitagobwa UMEA Primary School and Secondary School. After his secondary school, Ggoobi joined Makerere University from where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 2003.
Later, Ggoobi proceeded with school at Makerere University and attained a Master of Arts in Economic Planning and Policy Economics, 2008-2010.
After graduating from Makerere University with an economics degree in 2003, Ggoobi who was among the best students of economics was enrolled as an economics lecturer, Makerere University.
However, before completing the induction process with Makerere University, Kampala International University (KIU) contacted Ggoobi in need of his services.
Then a month later, Kampala University contacted him for the same and he accepted until Makerere University Business School contacted him in need of his services.
This is where he has been lecturing until he was appointed Permanent Secretary Ministry of Finance on 15th July 2021, by the Fountain of Honors, H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni replacing Keith Muhakanizi who was taken to the office of the Prime Minister.
He has taught economics at various universities in the country and trained senior military officers at SCSC Kimaki in Public Sector Economics and Media Relations for five years.
Ggoobi as well wrote a column and blog in the Sunrise Newspaper titled ‘Are You Listening Mr President for eight years. Additionally, Ggoobi analyzed public policy for senior public leaders in Uganda for four years.
Ggoobi also got involved in a global debate of why Neo-Liberation is much taught in economics.
He was inspired into becoming an economist by Prof. Patrick Kabunakuki who persuaded him to pursue economics that works and the former governor of Bank of Uganda and Proprietor of the defunct Greenland Bank, Sulaiman Kiggundu while still in Secondary School.
Kiggundu visited Ggoobi’s Secondary School many times to attend fundraising drives and other school ceremonies. Kiggundu’s stories motivated him and inspired him a lot to study economics and as a result, Ggoobi volunteered to craft Kiggundu’s image as an art piece.
He developed an interest in economics and thought of becoming an economist while in senior three.
Ggoobi’s parents were both teachers, so it seems he inherited the teaching career from his parents, but later, his father became a civil servant. Also, two of his siblings are teachers.
Ramathan Ggoobi is married to Stella Nakamya, and together they’re parents of two children.
Ramathan Ggoobi is a simple guy who believes that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication although some individuals take him to be unserious. Ggoobi loves happiness, people a lot and this explains why he shares a lot of information.
According to Ggoobi, perfect happiness is key, which explains having freedom of choices, self-esteem and a stable income.
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Ggoobi is extremely a generous man, and he says some people have advised him to lessen his generosity, a loose talker who can’t observe things and keep them to himself. Generally, Ggoobi dislikes people who use their biases to judge others.
Ggoobi admires economists but in particular, Amartya Kumar Sen. He is a professor of economics who he says is like the grandfather of economics that works.
Kumar invented the aspect of development as freedom and worked so hard to switch the mindset of economists who thought that economic development is about countries getting infrastructure. Just like Kumar, Ggoobi believes that development is about people whereby education and health are crucial.
Ggoobi’s greatest extravagance is buying books, sometimes he buys books he will never read.
Ramathan Ggoobi loves music; sport particularly football, tennis and boxing. For the case of music, he likes R&B, Soul, Pop, Afrobeat and particularly Ugandan music as long as it isn’t noisy and good music.
3.Dr. Diana Kanzira Atwine
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of HealthDr Diana Kanzira Atwine, is a Ugandan Physician, Consultant Physician, Medical Administrator, known for Medical knowledge Administration Skills, Civil Servant, a mother and a wife.She is the incumbent Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Uganda.She was appointed to that position on 4 November 2016 by H.E. the President of the Republic of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.Dr Diana Atwine replaced Dr Asuman Lukwago, who transferred as Permanent Secretary to the Education Services Commission.Dr Diana Atwine Kanzire was born in 1973, to Ernest Rujundira (father) and Joy Kensheka Rujundira (mother) in Galiraya, on the southern shores of Lake Kyoga in Kayunga District, Central Region of Uganda.
She is the third born in the family.She attended Bweranyangi Girl’s Senior Secondary School for her middle school (O-Level) and Mount St Mary’s College Namagunga, a Girls School for her high school (A-Level) education.
From St Mary’s College Namagunga, Dr Atwine joined Mbarara University, School of Medicine, where she pursued a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree, specializing in Internal Medicine.
After her degree, Atwine proceeded with her studies and she was awarded a Master of Medicine degree by the same University.
Dr Atwine worked for a brief period at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya, before she joined the Uganda Joint Clinical Research Centre (JCRC).From there Dr Atwine joined State House of Uganda, where she was given the title of the President’s Private Secretary in Charge of Medical Affairs.
In that capacity, she served as one of President Museveni’s physicians.In 2009, she was tasked to head what was officially known as the Medicine and Health Services Delivery Monitoring Unit, specifically tasked to investigate corruption in Uganda’s Ministry of Health.
By June 2010, the unit that she headed had (a) uncovered an illegal racket by Ugandan and Kenyan officials to sell drugs across their common border (b) brought 78 cases to court (c) recovered stolen drugs worth more than Shs200 million (US$60,000) and (d) arrested at least 12 imposters, pretending to be qualified health workers on the payroll of Mulago National Referral Hospital.
Currently, Atwine is the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, appointed on 4 November 2016, after a Permanent Secretaries reshuffle, cabinet wide by H.E. the President.
Diana Atwine is married to Mr Kanzira and together they have children.
4. Mr Vincent Waiswa Bagiire
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
5. Aggrey David Kibenge
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Gender,Labour and Social Development
6.Gen. Joseph Musanyufu
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Internal Affairs
7.Dr.Kenneth Olusegun Omona
Principal Private Secretary to H.E the President
8.Mr Pius Bigirimana
Permanent Secretary/Secretary of the Judiciary
9.Mr.Ben Kumumanya
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Local Government
10.Mr.Alfred Okot Okidi
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Water and Environment
11. Ms. Jane Barekye
State House Comptroller
12. Mr.Waiswa Bageya
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Works and Transport
13. Haji Yunus Kakande
SecretaryOffice of the President
14. Ms.KETTY LAMARO
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Education and Sports
15. Ms.Irene Pauline Batebe
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Energy and Minerals Development
16. Hon Adolf Mwesige
Clerk to Parliament
17. Dr.Aminah Zawedde
Permanent Secretary-Ministry of ICT and National Guidance
18. Maj Gen. David Kasura Kyomukama
Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
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