Prof, Kyamanywa officially installed as UMU Vice Chancellor

By Ben Musanje

18^th March 2022

The Uganda Episcopal Conference – UEC has pledged full support to the new Vice Chancellor Professor Patrick Edrin Kyamanywa in efforts of raising the institution at the top in academic sector in Uganda and East Africa as a whole.

This message was delivered by the UEC Chairman and also the Bishop of Kiyinda- Mityana Diocese Rt. Rev Joseph Antony Zziwa during the installation ceremony of Prof. Kyamanywa that began with homily mass at UMU main campus Nkozi in Mpigi dstrict.

Prof. Kyamanywa who was handed over the office and instrument of power as the Vice Chancellor, became the 4^th Vice Chancellor for the university since its foundation 29years ago.

Bishop Zziwa says that the Catholic Bishops expects Prof. Kyamanywa to continue following the footsteps of his predecessors and building on the foundation of the founders of having the university as means of integral human development, spreading the principals of the catholic teaching and ethical values like moral uprightness.

The Chairman Governing Council of UMU who is also the Bishop of Lira Diocese Rt. Rev. Santus Linos Wanok says that with the wars started to be experienced in the countries across the world, its upon the learning institutions like UMU with total support from all the stakeholders that are supposed to teach students on valuing humanity in order to control bloodshed in this 21^st Century.

Prof. Kyamanywa promised to base on the lessons learnt during the Covid19 pandemic in the educations sector to create avenues of widening financial flow for university to run without basing on the tuition from the students.

He says that he is to make sure that he enhances the development of skills necessary for personal and society transformation such as critical thinking, problem solving, job creation and collaboration among students among others.

Last year, UEC appointed Prof. Kyamanywa, a professor in surgery and a former Kampala International University –KIU to lead the UMU on a five year renewable contract that started in November 2021. Prof. Kyamanywa replaces Prof. John Chrysostom Maviiri whose contract expired in 2021