Nsamizi to offer degree programmes

May 13, 2007

NSAMIZI Institute of Social Development will revert to the Ministry of Education, Syda Bbumba, the gender, labour and social development Minister, has said.

By Vision Reporter

NSAMIZI Institute of Social Development will revert to the Ministry of Education, Syda Bbumba, the gender, labour and social development Minister, has said.

Bbumba said her ministry agreed to relinquish the institute under a restructuring programme that will allow it to start offering degree programmes.

She was speaking at the requiem mass for Anthony Emiru, the late principal of the institute. Bbumba hailed Emiru for his visionary leadership of the Mpigi-based institute.

“I put him to task to justify why the institute should be transferred to the Ministry of Education. He had great ideas and aspiration for the institute. Because of his ideas, we accepted,” Bbumba told mourners who thronged All Saints Cathedral last Monday.

Since its establishment in the 1980s, Nsamizi has been under the ministry responsible for social development offering certificate and diploma courses in social work and social administration.

Emiru, 41, who became the institute’s acting principal in 2005, died of a stroke at Mulago Hospital on May 5 and was buried in Otuboi, Kaberamaido district on Tuesday.

He leaves behind a widow, Catherine and daughter, Isabella.

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