Mr Daniel Nokorach Odongo.
In Summary
Takes mantle. The newly appointed examination board secretary begins his five-year contract
The Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) outgoing executive secretary, Mr Mathew Bukenya, will today officially hand over office to his successor, Mr Daniel Nokrach Odongo, for a five-year contractual term.
Prof Mary Okwakol, the Uneb chairperson, appointed Mr Odongo in January to start work on April 1.
Mr Odongo has been the deputy secretary in charge of secondary school examinations, a position he has held since 2004.
The process
The appointment followed a competitive recruitment process in which he emerged the best evaluated candidate out of eight who were interviewed for the job.
“We have been a team working hard to improve the board and I look forward to continue working with them,” Mr Odongo said yesterday in an interview.
He wants funding to the body increased to enable examiners to avoid examination malpractice.
Mr Odongo graduated from Makerere University with a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture which he studied concurrently with a diploma in Education and completed in 1975. Born on August 23, 1951, Mr Odongo went to Parak Primary School and Opit Primary School before joining St Joseph College, Nebbi, for O’Level and Teso College for A-level.
His first job was at Kitgum High School as an agriculture and biology teacher in 1975. He was then elevated to head the department before he applied to become a deputy head teacher and was posted to the same school. He worked here until 1985 when he was transferred to St Thomas More as a caretaker head teacher.
Seven months into the system, there was a rebellion and the school closed only to be reopened in 1989.
The year the school reopened, Mr Odongo applied to join Uneb as assistant secretary and in 1990, he joined the assessment body.
Prior to this, he had served as an examiner with the East African Examination Council in 1978 before he was promoted to examiner in charge of agriculture at O-Level five years later. He was then made a chief examiner in 1986 for both O and A-Level.
He has since risen through the ranks. In 1995, the board had a setback and suspended examinations and a year later Mr Odongo was promoted to senior assistant secretary. During this time, Mr Bukenya was asked to take over the secretariat and create a team to work with on temporal terms. Odongo was then picked to head the secondary department until 2004 when he was confirmed.
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