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Phillip Wafula Oguttu (born 21 December 1952) is a Ugandan journalist and politician. He is the current Leader of Opposition in the Ugandan Parliament. He was appointed to that position on 31 January 2014, replacing Nandala Mafabi, who served in that position from May 2011 until January 2014. Wafula is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bukhooli County Central, a constituency in Bugiri District, Busoga Sub-region, Eastern Region of Uganda.〔 He is a member of Uganda's opposition party Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) for which he is the spokesperson. Oguttu is also one of the co-founders of the Daily Monitor, a privately owned English-language daily newspaper in Uganda. ==Background== He was born in Buhehe sub-county, Butaleja District, to Wafula Olago, a veteran of World War II, and Lucia Aguttu. At the time of Oguttu’s birth, his father was working for a borehole-drilling company in Butaleja. A Samia by tribe, Wafula was raised in Mbajja Village, Lumino Sub-county, in present-day Busia District. The administrative area at that time was known as Bukedi District and included present-day Busia District, Tororo District, Pallisa District, Butaleja District, and Kibuku District. His name "Oguttu" in the Samia culture is given to someone born on the veranda or in the garden behind a house. Wafula grew up with five sisters and three brothers.〔 His father died in 1960 when he was a primary two pupil.〔 Because he was a bright student, he studied for free from primary to university despite being from a poverty-stricken family.〔 He benefited a lot from the then Bukedi District local government, Tororo Town Council, and the Madhvani Foundation school bursaries. He moved to Busoga in 1980 and fully transformed himself into a naturalized Musoga. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wafula Oguttu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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