Hon. Norbert Mao
The Minister
Norbert Mao (born on 12 March 1967)is a Ugandan political activist and lawyer. He has been president of the Democratic Party since 2010, three-time presidential candidate and he served as the Local Council 5 chairman for Gulu District.
On 21 July 2022, he was appointed minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs in the Ugandan government by HE. Yoweri Museveni, the president of the Republic of Uganda…
Norbert Mao attended Mwiri Primary School in Jinja and briefly went to Wairaka College in Jinja District before attending Namilyango College, a prestigious all-boys boarding high school in Mukono District from 1982 until 1988. He then attended Makerere University between 1988 until 1991, graduating with a law degree.
He served as the president of the Makerere University Students Guild between 1990 and 1991. He went on to obtain the Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Center in 1992. In 2003, Mao was admitted to Yale University, under the Yale World Fellows Program, where he spent one year at the New Haven, Connecticut campus
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