{{short description|Ugandan politician and diplomat}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Alintuma Nsambu John Chrysostom | native_name = | office = | appointer = [[Yoweri Museveni]] | ambassador_from = Uganda | country = [[Canada]], [[Bahamas]] and [[Maghreb]] | constituency = Bukoto County East, Bukoto South | minister_from = Uganda | parliament = [[Parliament of Uganda]] | minister = Information & Communication Technology | president = [[Yoweri Museveni]] | status = Former | term_start = 2006 | term_end = 2011 | title = State Minister for Information & Communication Technology, Member of Parliament | successor = [[Nyombi Thembo]] | occupation = Politician, Ugandan diplomat | honorific_prefix = His Excellency | spouse = [[Susan Nakawuki]] }} '''Alintuma Nsambu''' also known as Alintuma Nsambu '''John Chrysostom''' is a [[Uganda]]n diplomat, [[politician]] and [[legislator]]. He served as the former state minister for [[information technology|information]] & communication technology from 2006 until 2011.<ref>[http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/501695/Nsambu Alintuma Nsambu Appointed State Minister for ICT In 2006]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://carleton.ca/africanstudies/wp-content/uploads/AGENDA-Agenda-2063-conference-FINAL.pdf |title=The African Union's Agenda 2063:Assessing the Development Vision for Africa |date=2015-03-12 |publisher=Carleton University |location=2220-2228 River Building |publication-date=2015-03-12 |pages=2, 4 |language=en}}</ref> He was shuffled from the cabinet to Diplomatic Service and replaced by [[Nyombi Thembo]] in the cabinet reshuffle of 27 May 2011.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/note.php?http://dispatch.ug/2012/08/06/kings-dont-kill-dp-dp-will-kill-kings/note_id=10150208384704078&comments Museveni Names New Cabinet, May 2011]</ref>

== Background and education == Nsambu studied at the [[United States International University]] in San Diego and also at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2014-07-27 |title=PHOTOS: Nsambu Marries MP Nakawuki |url=https://chimpreports.com/photos-nsambu-marries-mp-nakawuki/ |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=ChimpReports |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Career == From 1996 to 2000, Nsambu served as the officer-in-charge and coordinator for the Exchange Students’ Program of the European Union at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany.<ref name=":1" />

Nsambu served as the elected [[Parliament of Uganda|member of Parliament]] representing Bukoto County East in the [[Masaka District]] from 2001 until 2011. During the 2011 national election cycle, he controversially lost to [[Florence Namayanja]], of the [[Democratic Party (Uganda)|Democratic Party]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alintuma Nsambu Loses His Bukoto East Parliamentary Seat |url=http://www.politicouganda.com/?p=1702 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325004007/http://www.politicouganda.com/?p=1702 |archive-date=2012-03-25 |access-date=2011-06-05}}</ref><ref>[http://www.parliament.go.ug/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=37 Florence Namayanja of DP Is MP for Bukoto East Constituency, 2011 – 2016]</ref>

Nsambu served as the appointed ambassador of Uganda to Eritrea but he ended up serving as a Uganda's High Commissioner to Canada.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" />

In 2013, he contested for MP Bukoto South Constituency in Lwengo District where he narrowly lost to the former Democratic Party secretary the Late Matia Nsubuga Birekerawo.

There is a theory that Nsambu's losses were caused by the then Police Chief, Gen.[[Kale Kayihura]] who is believed to have manipulated the results. While still a minister, Nsambu is believed to have refused to take a bribe from Kayihura to award an ID production project to his company associates in France.

Immediately after the elections, President Museveni named Alintuma Nsambu Uganda's Ambassador to Canada, Cuba and the Bahamas.

In 2016, President Museveni posted Nsambu to Algiers as Uganda's Ambassador to the [[Mahgreb region|Maghreb region]] (Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria).

== Works == Alintuma Nsambu is best remembered for his charity work in establishing computer laboratories in Ugandan schools with the hand of Bill Gates' daughter - Jennifer Gates and with the Bellevue area schools in Washington State.

As Minister, Alintuma Nsambu advised President Museveni to establish a national data bank for the citizens of Uganda and that marked the beginning of the National Identification Project that has enabled every Ugandan adult to have an National ID.

As a Minister for ICT, Alintuma Nsambu initiated the Mobile Money policy among Telecos which is now the most popular platform for transferring money in Uganda.

== Personal life == Nsambu married [[Susan Nakawuki]] in 2014.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://carleton.ca/africanstudies/wp-content/uploads/AGENDA-Agenda-2063-conference-FINAL.pdf |title=The African Union's Agenda 2063:Assessing the Development Vision for Africa |date=2015-03-12 |publisher=Carleton University |location=2220-2228 River Building |publication-date=2015-03-12 |pages=2, 4 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Luggya |first=Jude |date=2014-08-01 |title=MP Nakawuki introduces former ICT minister Alintuma Nsambu – Sqoop – Get Uganda entertainment news, celebrity gossip, videos and photos |url=https://www.sqoop.co.ug/201408/four-one-one/mp-nakawuki-introduces-former-ict-minister-alintuma-nsambu.html |access-date=2024-04-07 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":32">{{Cite web |date=2007-03-03 |title=MP Nakawuki's fiance is married |url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1169878/mp-nakawuki-eur-fiance-married |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=New Vision}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/501695/Nsambu Full Ministerial Cabinet List, June 2006]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *[http://newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/671730/Nsambu Full Ministerial Cabinet List, February 2009]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} *[https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150208384704078&comments Full Ministerial Cabinet List, May 2011]

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