Honourable Babirye Kityo Breeze Sarah, the Central Youth MP has one of the most surprising CVs in Uganda. According to the curriculum vitae she submitted to the Parliament of Uganda, Babirye was born on 27th December 1986.
In relation to her date of birth, Hon Babirye’s education background shows that she had one of the shortest journeys throughout her school days as compared to other Ugandans. At only four years, the Central Youth Member of Parliament had already joined her primary schooling in 1990. She completed her Primary Leaving Examinations in 1995, at the age of nine.
She sat and completed her Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) in only six years instead of seven (1990 – 1995) basing on the fact that Uganda has seven classes and it is a must for every pupil to spend a year in every class. More information obtained from her CV shows that she studied from Luwero SDA Primary School in her ‘six-year’ primary level. Well, It is legal for any Ugandan to skip a class- perhaps she did just that. Read on.
Contrary to the Ugandan education system where a student is expected to join the next level of Education in the following year, Babirye Kityo’s CV defies the odds as it shows that she joined O’level the same year she completed her primary school (1995).
In an education level of four classes (O’Level), it took Babirye only three years to complete the four-year level at Mulusa Academy – Wobulenzi as evidenced on her CV (1995-1997). Worthy to note is that a typical Ugandan student joins senior one at the of 11-13 years, Babirye, however, joined the first class of secondary school at the age of 9.
At the age of 12, the honourable studied her A’level from 1998 and sat her UACE examinations in 1999 at the age of 13. An average Ugandan student completes A-level at the age of 17-18 years.
Babirye had a 12-year long A’level vacation from 1999 to 2011 when she joined Uganda Christian University where she graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Public Administration and Management in 2015.
Had Hon Babirye enrolled for an undergraduate in 2000, she’d have gone down in history as the first Ugandan to ever join campus at the age of 14.
Well, basing on her CV’s, it took our lovely Honourable only 9 years to complete both her primary and secondary level education. Her 12-year senior six vacation was longer than her entire education journey combined.
In a phone interview with Campus Bee, Hon Babirye said that it is possible for someone to skip classes and that there’s nothing illegal about that. “That’s rubbish and I am not threatened by that…those are just losers because court pronounced itself on that matter after I brought my teachers to testify. I was not thrown out of Parliament,” she said.
Here is the link to her CV on the Uganda Parliament official website http://www.parliament.go.ug/mp_database/profile.php?mid=306
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