Dr Elioda Tumwesigye is the minister for Science, Technology and Innovation. He is also the current Member of Parliament for Sheema North.
Yesterday, July 27, he has set the record as the only person in the world, to represent two different constituencies in Parliament.
This was after the Electoral Commission declared him the winner of the newly created Sheema Municipality.
He won the six-man race with 13, 590 votes ahead of FDC’s Virginia Plan Mugyenyi who got 11, 489 votes.
Tumwesigye’s victory means that the Electoral Commission will now have to conduct another by-election in Sheema North.
About Elioda Tumwesigye:
Tumwesigye was born in Sheema District on April 5, 1964, to Yekonia Kasyamutwe and Esteeri Kasyamutwe. He went to Ntare School for his entire Secondary Education and while there, he was elected Head Prefect.
In 1984 he was the third best performing student in UACE in the country and went on to obtain a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Makerere University in 1990. He was also elected Health Secretary of University Hall, a men’s hall of residence at Makerere.
He obtained a Masters Degree of Science in Epidemiology from Case Western Reserve University while working as a medical officer with the Ministry of Health, serving in the Epidemiology Studies Unit.
In 2001, he contested and won the parliamentary seat of Sheema County North, in Sheema District, on the National Resistance Movement ticket – a seat he still holds despite being voted MP Sheema Municipality yesterday.
