Background
She was born in Nakuru, Kenya on 30 November 1955 to George Wilson Kamya, a Ugandan, and Margaret Wairimu Kamya, a Kenyan.
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Education
She attended McKay Memorial School, in Kampala and Saint Hellen"s Primary School, in Western Uganda for her primary education.
Career
She was a contestant in the 2011 Ugandan presidential elections, coming in 5th with a total of 52,782 votes. Beti was the 4th born of nine siblings. In 1961, when Beti was six years old, the family relocated to Uganda.
She then attended Wanyange Girls’ School for her O-Level education and Kings College Budo for her A-Level education.
She studied at Makerere University, the oldest and largest public university in the country, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Marketing. In the mid 1980s, she joined Uganda Leather and Tanning Industries Limited, in Jinja, in the sales department, working there until 1988.
She then joined Nyanza Textiles Industries Limited, working there as a sales executive until 1992. She then relocated to Kampala, Uganda"s capital and largest city, with her then new husband.
From 1996 until 1999, she worked as the Marketing Manager at Uganda Breweries Limited in Portuguese Bell, a Kampala suburb.
From 1999 until 2004, she was assigned as the Executive Director of Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC), in Entebbe, about 36 kilometres (22 mi), by road, south of Kampala, on the northern shores of Lake Victoria. From 2005 until 2010, she served as the Special Envoy of the FDC President Kizza Besigye, at that time. In January 2010, she quit FDC and formed Uganda Federal Alliance, becoming its first president
Beti Kamya was married to the late Spencer Turwomwe, a soldier in the Ugandan military.
He died in 2003. Together, they have six children.
Politics
She is the founder and president of the Uganda Federal Alliance, one of the registered political parties in the country. Between 2001 and 2004, while still at UWEC, she became an official in the political pressure group Reform, Agenda, the precursor of the FDC political party.
Membership
She previously served as the Member of Parliament representing Lubaga North Constituency on the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) ticked, from 2006 until 2010. She also served as the elected member of parliament for Lubaga North Constituency, on the FDC ticket.
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Forum for Democratic Change