Kagonyera re-appointed Makerere Chancellor

By Conan Businge

President Yoweri Museveni has re-appointed Prof. Mondo Kagonyera as Makerere University Chancellor.

In an Instrument signed by the President on December 22, 2011, but released last week, Prof. Kagonyera has been given four more years as Chancellor.

It reads, “In the exercise of Powers conferred upon me… I, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, do hereby appoint, Prof George Mondo Kagonyera, Chancellor of Makerere University for a period of four years with effect from October 24, 201, given under my hand and the Public Seal this 22nd day of December 2011.”

Kagonyera’s re-appointment authorisation documentation was passed on to the university’s Vice Chancellor Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba, by the education ministry’s Permanent Secretary Francis-Xavier Lubanga.

Kagonyera is the seventh Chancellor in the history of the university. He was selected for appointment in 2008 for the first term. This was after he emerged the best of the available candidates then, who included Vice-President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya.

Kagonyera became the second chancellor of the university, who is not a Head of State. The first was former Premier Prof. Apolo Nsibambi.

His re-appointment is a concretisation with Makerere. His association with the university started in 1971 as a lecturer, and actively participated in the establishment of the faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

He rose through the ranks to become a prominent academician, until he left in 1998 to take up a ministerial appointment. He returned as the chairperson of the university appointments board from 1993 to 1999.

Outside the university, he served as an MP for Rubabo constituency in Rukungiri and as a Minister for General Duties in the office of the Prime Minister.