EXCLUSIVE: NUP set to appoint Kaluya as Commissioner

With a few weeks left to the creation of the new government in May, the nation is anxiously waiting to see whether the National Unity Platform will take a bow and appreciate the Busoga sub region for the mammoth support it committed to Bobi Wine’s led struggle.

By the close of the 2026 general elections, the opposition National Unity Platform party had spread its wings across the East within Busoga sub region where they enjoy mass support from the public.

The wave saw the Kavule based establishment sweep at least 8 parliamentary seats despite a mass rigging machinery by the ruling NRM party.

Amongst the senior lawmakers that NUP has got in Busoga is the Kigulu South Member of Parliament elect, Andrew Kiiza Kaluya who has been serving the party’s National Executive Committee as the Secretary for Mobilization in Easter Uganda, a position he meritoriously got on merit having replaced the unpopular Moses Bigirwa.

Kaluya, a social worker by profession and an entrepreneur is a born of February 8, 1978 from Iganga, to hard working rural Busoga parents who endured a span of difficulties to sustain him in school.

The Busoga sub region is known to be a haven of abject poverty, mass unemployment and high school dropout rates plus early teenage pregnancies on top of child labor that sees school going children abandon classes to keep in the sugar cane fields. Kaluya beat all these odds to keep in school and graduate as a social worker.

Having that portfolio, odds seem to favor the Kigulu South MP Andrew Kiiza Kaluya as an ideal choice to occupy the position of Commissioner.