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CITATION FOR THE AWARD OF HONORARY DOCTOROF LAWS (HONORIS CAUSA) TO H.E. MWAI KIBAKITHE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYAMr. Chancellor, SirGuided by Section 47 ofthe Universities andOther Tertiary Institutions Act 2001, MakerereUniversity has bestowed upon a selectednumber of distinguished personalities whohave excelled in different sectors of life herprestigious Honorary Degree Awards.Today, I have the pleasure and privilege ofpresenting to this congregation, a gallantalumnus of Makerere University, an eminentstatesman, President of the Republic of Kenya-His Excellency Mwai Kibaki.Mr. Chancellor Sir, the Makerere UniversityCouncil together with the University Senateresolved to honour His Excellency MwaiKibaki, with a Doctor of Laws (HonorisCausa) in recognition of his distinguishedand outstanding contribution to public life atnational, regional and international levels.BackgroundPresident Kibaki was born on 15 th November,1931 in Othaya Division of Nyeri in Kenya.He isthe last born of the late Kibaki Githinji and lateTeresia Wanjiku. He attained his secondaryeducation at Mangu High School (1947-1950)and thereafter joined Makerere Universitywhere he studied Economics, History andPolitical Science.Kibaki was an exemplary student whograduated with a First Class Bachelor's Degreein Economics in 1955. While a student atMakerere, he served as the Chairman of theKenya Students Association and also theVice Chairman of the Makerere Students'Guild. Upon his graduation in 1955, Kibakisecured a Postgraduate scholarship to theprestigious London School of Economics (LSE)for a Bachelor of Science in Public Financeand graduated with a Distinction. After hisstintattheLondonSchoolofEconomic~Kibaki returned to his Alma Mater-MakerereUniversity in 1958 as an Assistant Lecturer inthe Economics Department where he serveduntil 1960.He then returned to Kenya in December1960 and became Executive Officer for theKenya African National Union (KANU), apolitical party he had helped found earlierin March of the same year. In 1963, he wasxxvi

elected Member of Parliament for Donholmconstituency, now known as Makadara. Thiselection was the beginning of his politicalpath which has spanned several decades.In 1963, President Kibaki was appointedAssistant Minister for Finance and Chairmanof the Economic Planning Commission andlater promoted to Minister of Commerce andIndustry in 1966. Between 1969 and 1981,he was the Minister of Finance and EconomicPlanning.From 1982-1988 during President DanielArap Mol's term of office, he was appointedand served as Vice-President of Kenya andMinister for Home Affairs. During Kibaki'stenure as the Minister of Finance, Kenyaenjoyed a period of relative prosperity,characterised by a commodities boom,remarkable fiscal discipline and soundmonetary policies. In 1988, he was appointedMinister of Health, a position he held until1991. President Kibaki's political style duringthese years was described as moderate andnon-confrontational.Soon after his resignation from thegovernment in December 1991, PresidentKibaki formed the Democratic Party (DP) afterthe repeal of Section 2A of the Constitution,which restored the multi-party system ofgovernance. President Kibaki offered himselffor leadership and effectively contested inboth the 1992 and 1997 presidential elections.When the Democratic Party became thelegitimate opposition party in 1998, hebecame the official leader of the opposition.In preparation for the 2002 elections,President Kibaki's Democratic Party affiliatedwith several other opposition parties to formthe National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK).NAK was joined by members of the LiberalDemocratic Party (LOP)to form the NationalRainbow Coalition (NARC). On 14 October2002, at a large opposition rally in UhuruPark, Nairobi Kibaki was nominated the NARCopposition alliance presidential candidate afterRaila Odinga made the famous declaration,Kibaki Tosha! On 27th December, 2002, Kibakiand NARCwon a landslide victory over theKANU, and he was thereafter sworn in asthe third President of the Republic of Kenya.In 2007, he was re-elected President of theRepublic of Kenya and sworn in for his lastterm.Hon. Mwai Kibaki's Political, Social andEconomic AchievementsMakerere University-his Alma Mater isprivileged to have formed and nurturedhis leadership skills and competences. Assuch, Makerere is proud of H.E PresidentMwai Kibaki's distinguished track record asa Pan-African nationalist; as one of the mostbrilliant and suc-essful Ministers of Financein Africa; and as one of the most intellectuallyaccomplished Heads of State with anoutstanding legacy in Kenya, East Africa andthe African Continent. President Kibaki hasspearheaded tremendous Political, Social andEconomic reforms as highlighted below:• His government has spearheaded genderand empowerment of women by focusingon implementing affirmative action policiesthat facilitate the mainstreaming of theneeds and concerns of women in thedevelopment process. President Kibaki, forexample, directed that 30% of all recruits inthe Public Service should be women.• In education, Hon. Mwai Kibaki'sgovernmentintroduced the policy offree and compulsoryprimary education, thus making educationfree and accessible to all Kenyan children.The programme which commenced inJanuary 2003 has witnessed a tremendousincrement in school enrolments especiallyamong the girl-child. The Government isproviding free primary education to over 7.6million children. This includes 1.7 millionwho would not have access to schoolbecause of fees. In addition, gender parity ismore or less realized with girls constituting49% of the primary school-going children.Free Primary Education was followed up byxxvii

the now successful free secondary tuitionprogramme.• President Kibaki hasalso been attheforefrontin campaigning for a peaceful conclusionand implementation of agreements in bothSouth Sudan and Somalia. As a result of thepeace initiatives Kenya facilitated, a newstate of South Sudan was born on July 8th,201l.• He has proved to be a true East African byplacing regional integration as priority in hisinternational and diplomatic engagements.• The President has introduced and overseenthe adoption of Vision 2030, which is adevelopment plan aimed at raising GDPgrowth to 10% annually and transformingKenya into a middle income country by theyear 2030.• Under his leadership, Kenya has witnessedthe promulgation of the new Constitutionfor the Republic of Kenya on 27th August,2011.• There has been an improvement in theprovision and accessibility of health servicesin public hospitals. The government is nowproviding free drugs for malaria, Tuberculosisand HIV/AIDS in public health facilities.• Development has also been widespreadthroughout the country because of theintroduction of devolved funds such as theConstituency Development Fund (CDF) andLocal Authority Transfer Fund (LATF).• The country's ICT sector has blossomedduring Hon. Kibaki's Presidency. Today,Kenya is a world leader in ICT innovations.• With respect to observance of democraticrights and freedom, there is now greaterfreedom of expression, assembly· andassociation more than at any other time inthe country's history.Mr. Chancellor, basing on His ExcellencyPresident Mwai Kibaki's excellent academicperformance, satisfactory economic record,and laudable educational and gender reformsaimed at empowering women across socialand political spheres, it is therefore fitting thathis Alma Mater will today confer on him oneof its prestigious awards, the Doctor of Laws(Honoris Causa) of Makerere University.Citation by Prof. Grace Bantebya KyomuhendoSchool of Women and Gender Studiesxxviii

62 nd CONGREGATION Monday, january 16, 2012Conferment of the Degreeof Doctor of Philosophy(Environment and NaturalResources)KlSAKYE John Mbago Joseph·NALWANGA Dianah (Ms)Conferment of the Degree ofDoctor of Philosophy (FoodScience and Technology)TUMUHIMBISE Gaston AmpekMr. Tumuhimbise'sresearch focusedon the potential of orange fleshedsweetpotatoes (OFSP) as a sourceof provitamin A carotenoidswhich are useful in alleviatingvitamin deficiency. The studyinvestigated changes in b-carotenebioaccessibility associated withprocessing and storage of OFSP andits relationship with the changesin tissue microstructure. In vitromodels and in vivo models wereused to investigate the amountof b-carotene released from thesweetpotato matrix and the amountfinally absorbed in the body. Theresults showed that processing altersOFSP microstructure and improvesb-carotene bioaccessibility. Thefindings further show that thatconsumption of OFSP is effective incombating vitamin A deficiency. Thesupport of the supervisors; Prof JMuyonga and Dr. Agnes Namutabiof Makerere University and Prof.Sherry Tanumihardjo of Universityof Wisconsin, Madson, USA ishereby acknowledged. Financialsupport from NORAD and CarnegieCorporation of New York enabledthis study.The Principal, College ofEngineering, Design, Art andTechnology to present thefollowing for theConferment of the Degreeof Doctor of Philosophy(Communication Engineering)KALUUBA Livingstone ListoneEng. Kaluuba investigated thefundamental limits of datatransmission over a wirelesschannel and how to overcome thisproblem through channel coding.The fundamental characteristic ofwireless communications is that thecommunication path or channel istime-varying due to mobility of theuser or of objects in the propagationpath, and due to multi path signalfading, interference, and noiseeffects which degrade the received'signal. The solution to the problem isto ensure that the intended messageis obtainable from whatever isactually received, which is often acorrupted version. Channel coding,adds extra data bits to informationbits to make the transmission of datamore robust to disturbances presenton the transmission channel. Eng.Kaluuba was able to establish thecritical design parameters for robustcodes and how to optimize thesefor best results, through simulationof their mathematical modelsusing MATLAB. Prof. LivingstoneLuboobi and Associate. Prof. Tabani-Wani Gyavira supervised this work.Makerere University - CARNEGIEProject provided financial support.The Principal, College HealthSciences to present the followingfor theConferment of the Degree ofDoctor of Philosophy (PublicHealth)BAKE ERA Solome Kiribakka (Ms)LUBEGAMuhammedThe Principal, College HealthSciences to present the followingfor the·Conferment of the Degree ofDoctor of Philosophy (Medicine)BANGlRAA Paul (psychiatry)BEYEZA Keshesya Jolly (Ms) (Obs/Gyn)KYOKUNDA Lynnetre Tumwine(Ms) (Pathology)NAKASUJJA Noeline (Ms) (Medicine)NAKIGGUDDE Janet (1\1s)(Psvchiarry)NDEEZI Grace ~Is) (paediatrics)The Principal, College of NaturalSciences to present the followingfor theConferment of the Degreeof Doctor of Philosophy(Biochemistry,)BALYEIDHUSA Apollo Simon PeterMr. Balyeidhusa's research was in thefield of African Trypanosomiasis. Theresearch investigated the presenceof human infective trypanosomes(Trypanosoma brucei gambiense)in domestic animals in northwestUganda that cause Gambian typeof sleeping sickness. No domesticanimal examined in northwestUganda was detected to have humaninfective trypanosornes. Probablydomestic animals do not pose apotential risk to humans as reservoirsofT. b. gambiense parasites. However,control interventions should stillconsider treating domestic animals,since in West Africa, they havebeen implicated as reservoirs ofT.b.gambiense. Also, the studyrevealed that tsetse flies feed on bothdomestic and wild animals. Tsetsecontrol interventions should involvedomestic animals. The research wassupervised by Prof. John Enyaru andAssoc Prof. Fred Kironde. The studyreceived funding from MakerereUniversity Directorate of Research &Graduate Training, DAAD, and WHO/TDR.Conferment of the Degreeof Doctor of Philosophy(Mathematics)NANNYONGABetty (Ms)The Principal, College ofVeterinary Medicine, AnimalResources and Biosecurity topresent the following for theConferment of the Degree ofDoctor of Philosophy (Medicine)NAKALEMBEImmaculateMs Nakalembe's research focusedon developing an inventory ofthe indigenous knowledge ofindigenous mushrooms of BunyoroSub-region, Uganda. She furtherlooked for molecules or compounds2

Monday, January 16, 201262 nd CONGREGATIONin the mushrooms with potentialfor nutraceutical and drugs. Acombination of standard fieldand laboratory methods wereused in this study. Bunyoro subregionhas over 22 edible speciesof mushrooms used for food andmedicine. Several useful moleculesand compounds dominant in themost edible mushrooms werecharacterized, identified andtested, of which were of medicinalimportance. The results of this studyexplain the indigenous use of thesemushrooms in the treatment ofvarious ailments including measles.Therefore, this research work opensfurther research for development ofnutraceuticals, medicines and healthproducts, especially for infantsand the elderly. The supervisors ofthis project were Prof. John DavidKabasa, Prof. Deogratias Olila andProf. Taha Nabil and sponsorsDAAD, Carnegie Corporation, SIGthrough the RISE-AFNNET Programand School of Graduate Studies,Makerere University, for funding thisresearch.Conferment of the Degree ofDoctor of Philosophy VeterinaryMedicine (Anatomy)SEGOOBA AsumanDr. Sengooba investigated the effectof different oxygen tensions on thegrowth of the respiratory system ofClarias carsonii and Clarias gariepinusspecies and its implications on fishfarming in Uganda. Randomizedlaboratory based and field basedstudies were conducted. Thegross anatomical and histologicalorganization of the respiratoryorgans the gills, labyrinthine organsand supra branchial membranewere quite similar in the twospecies. There was a positivecorrelation between growth ofthe physical respiratory structuresand concentration of oxygen.Clariascarsonii was more adaptedto low oxygen concentrations anda thus a promising candidate foraquaculture. The variation in oxygenconcentration during the day whicharises due to pond managementpractices have implication onfish rearing especially for non airbreathing fishes.The Principal, College ofAgricultural and EnvironmentalSciences to present the followingtor theAward of the Post GraduateDiploma in EnvironmentalInformation ManagementASABA Tadeo (Ms)The Principal, College ofEngineering, Design, Art andTechnology to present thefollowing for theAward of Post Graduate Diplomain Construction ManagementMUHOOZI HerbertNSEREKO RobertOLWOCH TangaJamesSABIITI Spencer ayesTURYAl\WREBA Ben ChrisThe Principal, College of HealthSciences to present the followingtor theAward of the PostgraduateDiploma in Quality Health CareBASEMERA JacquelineThe Principal, College ofAgricultural and EnvironmentalSciences to present the followingtor theConferment of the Degree ofMaster of Science in AgribusinessManagementAJUBO Sarah Ayo (Ms)MAYANJA ClementSSEBUNYA Robert BrianWALUUBE PaulThe Principal, College ofAgricultural and EnvironmentalSciences to present the tollowingtor theConferment of the Degree ofMaster of Science in AgriculturalEconomicsASllMWE JudeLAKOR JacksonKAGOYA Sarah ~rs)3The Principal, College ofAgricultural and EnvironmentalSciences to present the followingfor theConferment of the Degree ofMaster of Science in AgriculturalExtension and EducationDUSENGEMUNGU LeonidasMOHAl\1ED Nur YusufThe Principal, College ofAgricultural and EnvironmentalSciences to present the followingfor theConferment of the Degree ofMaster of Science in AgriculturalEngineeringJ UMA Adam Abdullah GudoTUMUTUGYEREIZE PeterThe Principal, College ofAgricultural and EnvironmentalSciences to present the followingfor theConferment of the Degree ofMaster of Science in Agricultureand Applied EconomicsMUHOOZI EmmanuelEGESSA PatrickThe Principal, College ofAgricultural and EnvironmentalSciences to present the followingtor theConferment of the Degree ofMaster of Science in AgroforestryACANAKWO Erik FrancisAKWATULIRA Florence (Ms)BYEKWASO Daudi MukibiOKETHWENGU RichardOYUKO SamuelSEBULlBA Esther (Ms)The Principal, College ofAgricultural and EnvironmentalSciences to present the followingtor theConferment of the Degree ofMaster of Science in AnimalScienceMWESIG\'i'A RobertO\VEYESIGIRE Brain Britex