Uganda: The New Minister of State

19 September 2012

Richard Todwong is the newly-appointed Minister of State without Portfolio. He is also the Member of Parliament for Nwoya County in Nwoya district. Todwong met his wife, Barbara Ayesiimire, at Makerere University. When Samuel Lutwama visited their home in Ndejje, off Entebbe Road, they told told him how tribal differences nearly killed their love

"I studied the women I came across as a young man at the university and found Barbara Ayesiimire worthy, with virtues of good a wife. She was born in Bushenyi to a Rwandan mother and I was born and grew up in Acholi, northern Uganda. So, winning her hand in marriage was a sparkle in my life."

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