From a poor village boy who shared a grass-thatched house with goats, to a minister and now UCC Executive Director⏤Hon. Nyombi Thembo’s story Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), this month announced that Hon. George William Nyombi Thembo (59), previously its Director for the Rural Development Communication Fund (RCDF) since January 2017, had been appointed its substantive Executive Director. He previously held the position of the Director for the Rural Development Fund, at the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC). Eng. Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo, the Commission's Director of Engineering & Communications Infrastructure has been the Ag. Executive Director. CEO East Africa Magazine traces his grass to grace story.

December 2, 2023January 15, 2024

Hon. George William Nyombi Thembo, the new Executive Director of the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC).

George William Nyombi Thembo was born in 1964, just two years after Uganda’s independence to the late Erisa Somongu- a political activist and a Kabaka Yekka die-hard, Eseza Nanyonga Ziribasanga in Kasanda Country, present-day Mubende District. In his words, he was born “in a very humble family where the only thing we had that was relevant and a big asset was religion and the fear of God”. “We had a few goats, which I remember we used to share the house with, and a few cows; about three,” he recently recounted to Flavia Tumusiime on Capital FM’s Desert Island Disc…

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