Seasoned communications expert, Peter Kaujju has been appointed as the new Umeme Head of Marketing & Communications, CEO East Africa can confirm.
Kaujju has been the Head, Public and Corporate Affairs at Kampala Capital Authority (KCCA) for the last 9 years and his last day at the city authority is on June 30th. According to our sources within KCCA and the Ministry of Public Service, Kaujju reportedly resigned his KCCA role on 30th May and is set to join Umeme, Uganda’s leading power distributor on July 1st 2020. The Umeme position has been vacant since June 2019 when Sandor Lyle Walusimbi’s, the then holder of the job, contract expired
Both Peter Kaujju and Umeme’s Managing Director, Selestino Babungi declined to confirm to CEO East Africa about the appointment, but neither did they deny.
“No comment,” Babungi said.
Kaujju told us to wait for official communication.
“If indeed it is true, I am sure you will know in the coming days,” he said.
dfcu Bank Partners with Jubilee Health to Launch BlueCare Health Insurance SolutionKaujju will be remembered for being the Authority’s first spokesperson, in which role, he created and led KCCA’s Public and Corporate Affairs Department from scratch and successfully positioned KCCA as a top performing and stakeholder-centric, highly-rated, respectable, and vibrant brand especially amongst government agencies.
His role included planning and advising the management team on matters of communication and public relations as well as spearheading stakeholder engagements of the Authority.
Kaujju holds an MBA (, Communication and Diplomacy) from ESAMI Arusha as well as a Post Graduate Diploma from ECOLE Nationale College, Paris in France. He also has a BA (Masscom) from Makerere University. He has also done several trainings in Communication and Public Relations.
Before KCCA, Kaujju worked at Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) in the communications department as well as at ZK Advertising- a lading advertising in Uganda in the 2000s. He was also a senior business reporter at New Vision.
