Joyce Moriku

Joyce Moriku (born 21 April 1969), is a Ugandan pediatrician, academic and politician. In the 2021-26 cabinet, she is State Minister for Primary education, having succeeded Rosemary Seninde.Previously she was in the Minister of State for Primary Health Care in the Ugandan Cabinet. She was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016, replacing Sarah Achieng Opendi, who became State Minister for Health, General Duties.She also serves as the elected Member of Parliament for Moyo District Women Representative in the 10th Parliament (2016 to 2021).

Quotes

• . If we are alive and our generation is alive we will always get to study but when we let people to die like flies, at the end of it all even studies will not be possible
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• You leave the door of your home open for strangers to steal your daughter. You leave your daughters to freely move anywhere and you have got no control and you call yourself a parent and you start blaming the government. Is that fair?
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• One thing that I want to be clear about is that I think health takes priority above everything.
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• Teachers are the ones that make up our country, they are the cream of the nation .We can’t neglect our teachers.
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