WILSON USHER OWERE – OFFICE MESSENGER WHO WANTS TO BECOME WORKERS MP IS ACADEMICALLY DWARF
Wilson Usher Owere, a former Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) office messenger, who eyes Workers Member of Parliament slot in the 2021 elections, is academically dwarf.
According to officials in the Council of Higher Education, Owere’s certificates he acquired while he worked at CAA, are not equivalent to A’level certificate. According to information available, Owere studied at Manjansi High School before he joined his uncle at Entebbe International Airport, where he was subtly recruited as an office messenger cosmetically referred to as Operation Officer.
He became active in trade unions, which made his name more popular in labour fights. He reportedly attended Singapore Aviation Academy to study Airport Operations Management at East Africa School of Aviation.
Recently, he acquired a diploma from Hon. Arinaitwe Rwakajara’s Labour College, but still this diploma is not equivalent to A’level certificate, according to the Council of Higher Education.
The 60-year-old Owere has a humble beginning; he was born in Tororo to a retired civil servant called Erinayo Owora, the son of Festo Obonyo. His mother is Pulusikira Awino.
Both parents are from Tororo district, Budama South and the sub-county is Nabuyoga but originally their village is Chawolo. Owere was born on 21st August 1959. That is where his father was working at Iyolwa.
His father was a clerk to, by then, the chiefs; those are days where the imperialists were still here and at that time there was a problem, a strike between the ordinary people.
“Actually, they were against the British. They used to call it tingabiro. Tingabiro means this big log where people carried and started beating everybody who was working for the government by then. My mum told me they hid under a certain bridge and that’s how they managed to survive,” Owere once narrated to the press.
After that, he went through Kisoko; there was a small kindergarten that was just starting; then Nabuyoga primary school, then Manjasi High School. After Manjasi, he went to Soroti Flying School; then after, he started working with Entebbe airport authority.
Usher Wilson Owere was elected the National Chairman of Amalgamated Transport and General Workers’ Union in 2006. He was a long-serving veteran of Uganda’s trade union movement.
Currently, Usher Wilson Owere is the chairman general of the National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU).