Born in Nakuru, Kenya of a Ugandan father George Wilson Kamya and Kenyan mother Margaret Wairimu Kamya, Beti is the fourth born in the family of nine siblings.

Beti Olive Namisango Kamya is the founder and president of the Uganda Federal Alliance, one of the registered political parties in the country.

She contested for president under her new party in the 2011 general elections, although she has made indications that she would not be seeking the post in the forthcoming elections.

She has opted to go back and reclaim her parliamentary seat of Rubaga North, Kampala, which she held in the 8^th Parliament (2006-2011). She had stood on the Forum for the Democratic Change ticket.

Born in Nakuru, Kenya of a Ugandan father George Wilson Kamya and Kenyan mother Margaret Wairimu Kamya, Beti is the fourth born in the family of nine siblings. Kamya’s family came back to Uganda in 1961 when Beti was six years old.

Beti attended St. Hellen’s Primary School in Mbarara, Wanyange Girls’ and King’s College Budo, before going to Makerere University, where she graduated with Bachelor of Commerce degree.

Beti worked at the Uganda Leather and Tanning Industries, Jinja, Nyanza Textiles Industries Uganda Breweries and Uganda Wildlife Education Centre (UWEC) before she joined active politics.

She became a household name in the 2001 elections as the spokesperson of the Reform Agenda, a political group formed by Dr. Kizza Besigye months before the elections.

She remained the face of Reform Agenda and later Forum for Democratic Change party at the time when a number of leaders of the group went into exile, including its leader Kizza Besigye and spokesperson Anne Mugisha. From 2005 until 2010, she served as the Special Envoy of the FDC president Kizza Besigye, at that time. In 2009, a disagreement on who was to replace party chairman Sulaiman Kiggundu (RIP) put Kamya on a collision course with some party officials. She had prepared to replace him, but the party later picked John Butime for the post. In January 2010, she quit FDC and formed Uganda Federal Alliance, becoming its first president.

Kamya was married to Spencer Turwomwe, a former soldier, who passed on in 2003.

Samuel Walter Mukaaku Lubega, 43, came to the presidential race in a surprise way. He first claimed to have wanted to take the DP ticket, but the party had already elected Norbert Mao as president and, therefore, flag-bearer.

Finally he came as an independent candidate. Given his late entrance into the race, he was not expected to get a big support.  However, he has been an influential political player for many years.

He is an ardent federalist and unshakable member of the Democratic Party, was Founder Member of the Uganda Young Democrats (UYD) 1995 – 1996, and Head of the Baganda Cultural/Youth Student Association (Nkoba za Mbogo).

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry, Food Science & Technology from Makerere University and the Faculty of Social Sciences, Politics and International Relations from the University of Wales, Swansea, UK.

He was born in Buseebwe-Sango, Mawokota county Mpigi and raised in Kawempe-Mbogo, Kampala. He received his B.Sc degree in Agricultural Economics from Makerere University, and his M.Sc in Policy Planning and Management from the Federal University of Wales, Swansea.

He taught in secondary schools and higher institutions of learning in Uganda and the United Kingdom. In 1995, along with four others, he founded the UYD (the youth wing of the Democratic Party), to which he served as the National Speaker. From 1996 to 1998, he was in exile, citing political reasons.

Since I985 he has served the Democratic Party (DP) in different capacities as: (i) Party Policy Engineer; (ii) Member of National Campaign Team for Presidential Candidate (Information and Youth Desk); (iii) National Director Grass-root Mobilisation and Coordinator House-to-House campaigning. And in all the above three roles he prominently helped to spearhead the return to multiparty democracy and canvassing for DP and Opposition Local Government Councillors, Parliamentary and Presidential Candidates – 1996, 2001 and 2006.