After a 10 year tenure, Godfrey Mutabazi the Executive Director of the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has been relinquished from his position where he has been at the helm since 2010. UCC is the communication regulatory authority for all broadcasting, postal and telecommunications services in Uganda.
Information reaching our desk indicates that Mutabazi has been replaced by Engineer Irene Kaggwa Ssewankambo according to a communication memo issues by the new Minister of ICT, Judith Nabakooba. In her letter, Minister Nabakooba directs that Irene Kaggwa serves in acting capacity until the Dorothy Okello-led governing Board conducts recruitment and a substantive CEO is recruited to replace Eng Mutabazi who has productively and transformatively headed UCC for such a long time.
Its still unclear how Mutabazi’s fate was sealed, but he has been seen as the presidents’s blue eyed boy in all matters concerning communication. As he has vast experience in both broadcasting and telecommunications and away from ICT; he is a champion for equal opportunities and gender balance.
Godfrey Mutabazi stis an Aeronautical Engineer by profession and a registered member of the Royal Aeronautical Society of the United Kingdom, an Affiliate of the Institute of Engineers of the United Kingdom. He studied Aeronautical Engineering and Avionics at Perth College, University of Highlands and Islands, Scotland. He holds an MSC in Information and Communications Technologies (Software Engineering) with a bias in Spectrum Planning from the University Of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
About Irene Kaggwa
Mrs Irene Kaggwa-Sewankambo is the Director for Engineering and Communication Infrastructure at the Uganda Communications Commission. She possesses a vast experience in the ICT sector spanning policy development, research, regulation and implementation in various aspects including internet development, licensing, universal access, quality of service, numbering resource management as well as promotion of research and innovation. An engineer by profession, Mrs Sewankambo holds a Master of Science in Communications Systems and Signal Processing from University of Bristol in United Kingdom and a Master of Science in Economic Management and Policy (Business Economic Pathway) from the University of Strathclyde in United Kingdom. She acquired her Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Makerere University Kampala [where current Board Chair Dr. Dorothy Okello teaches]. Prior to [her current position at UCC], Mrs Sewankambo was the Head of Research and Development Unit as well as Coordinator of the Office of the Executive Director
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