The young Bernard Onyango, born 11th January 1930, enrolled as a Senior One student of St. Peter’s.
11 JAN 1930His prolific academic acumen would later stand out when he passed with high distinction in the 1948 Cambridge School Certificate examinations of the time.
18 OCT 1948Mr. Onyango then enrolled for a B.A in History and Sociology at Makerere University in 1951 and later, a one year Diploma in Education, leaving school in 1955. The late Bernard Onyango joined Makerere University service in 1963 when he was appointed Deputy Registrar.
10 OCT 1951In 1965 Mr. Onyango became a Registrar of the University of East Africa and in 1969 he returned to Makerere University as Academic Registrar. On 1st July 1970 when Makerere became an independent national University of the Republic of Uganda, he became her first Academic Registrar, a position he held until his retirement in 1992. He was also the founding Academic Registrar of the Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi, a position he held until is official retirement from public service in December 2000.
11 OCT 1970As the longest serving Academic Registrar of Makerere University, he is remembered for his absolute incorruptibility, outstanding integrity and professionalism, and strict adherence to academic excellence. Students of Makerere during the 22 years of his service as Academic Registrar fondly referred to the end of year promotional exams as the ‘Onyango Disco’ and the re-sits for those who failed at the first attempt as the ‘August Conference’. Away from his professional life, the late Bernard Onyango was a loving husband, father, grandfather and mentor, who was rich in honour, humour and loved everyone. In order to preserve the memory of the late Bernard Onyango and honour his pledge to reward any student who equaled his academic prowess, the St. Peter’s College Tororo Old Boys Association (SPECTOBA) in conjunction with the family of the late Bernard Onyango have initiated The Bernard Onyango Academic Excellence Awards.
18 OCT 2001On January 18, 1956, Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny-Dollo was born
18 JAN 1956In 1973, he was admitted at St. Peter's College, Tororo as a member of Charles Lwanga House
18 FEB 1973He then enrolled for Bachelors Of Law at Makerere University and later obtained a Diploma in Legal Practice, from the Law Development Centre
His Master of Arts in conflict resolution, was obtained from the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom. He also has a certificate in advanced conflict mediation skills, obtained from the Center for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa.
10 AUG 1981In 1988, Owiny-Dollo served as legal counsel in the peace talks between the then rebel outfit, Uganda People's Democratic Movement (UPDM), and the government of Uganda. In that capacity, he wrote the peace agreement executed between the government and UPDM, on 3 June 1988, at Pece Stadium, in Gulu
From 1994 until 1996, he was a member of the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 1995 Uganda Constitution. He also served as a member of parliament, representing Agago County in the 6th Parliament (1996–2001).During the talks between the Lord's Resistance Army and the National Resistance Movement government of Uganda, from 2006 until 2008, Owiny-Dollo served as legal counsel to Reik Machar, the Vice President of South Sudan, who mediated the talks.
1988In 2008, he was appointed to the High Court of Uganda,[6] serving in that capacity until 2015
In 2015, Owiny-Dollo, was promoted to the Court of Appeal of Uganda. However, he couldn't immediately take up his appointment because he was hearing a terrorism case in the High Court, in which 13 men were accused of killing 76 people in twin bombings in Kampala in 2010. He disposed of that case in May 2016
In August 2017, the president of Uganda, appointed Owiny-Dollo, as the Deputy Chief Justice and under Ugandan law, the head of Uganda's Court of Appeal and Uganda's Constitutional Court
On 20 August 2020, the president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni appointed him as the 13th Chief Justice of Uganda, replacing Bart Magunda Katureebe, who clocked the mandatory retirement age of 70, on 19 June 2020.
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