Francis Ayume

Francis Joash Ayume (born August 18, 1940 in Leiko , Arua district , † May 16, 2004 in Nakasongola ) was a Ugandan lawyer and politician.

Career

Ayume attended King's College in Budo and graduated from the University of East Africa with a law degree in 1967 and became a prosecutor that same year. From 1977 he was also a lecturer at the Law Development Center and Makerere University in Kampala . Since 1996 he has been a member of parliament for the Koboko district in the Arua district and Minister for Construction and Spatial Planning from 1996 to 1998. He then became Minister of State in the Presidential Office.

Between 1999 and 2001 he was President of Parliament. In this function, his decision on July 1, 1999 to have the implementation law for the constitutional referendum passed the following year despite an insufficient number of MPs present led to a political crisis in Uganda, as a result of which the law was repealed by the Constitutional Court .

In 2001 he took over the post of Attorney General . In this capacity he also represented Uganda before the International Court of Justice in The Hague during the negotiations on the aggression of Ugandan troops in the Second Congo War .

death

On May 16, 2004 Ayume died in a traffic accident.