Hon. Jacinto Okello draws his inspiration from his late grandfather who stood up for the truth to the “slightest moment” and he desires to serve humanity to the last. The twenty two year old is Langi by tribe, from Oyam district, Northern Uganda.

 Jacinto is the current Guild Representative Council (GRC) for the School of Liberal and Performing Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

 In primary five, he was voted pupil of the year- a thing that showed him his fortune.  He was “brought down” at the death of his elder brother.

 Just like babies, Jacinto Okello yawns to learn more every day; “the more you interact with infants and babies you actually find that you have a lot of creative ideas that come into your mind.”

And he has an ambition of setting up an orphanage to increase his involvement with young children.

 His relationship with friends and the people he serves is built by the principles that he rides on. His one year spouse is like himself motivational and has specific principles that lead her. The two have dreams of serving humanity. Their relationship has been built on faith and trusting each other, “the first thing in relationship is knowing each other best, laid on trust and belief,” he says.

 People don’t know the crazy part of me,” he chortles. One day at a friend’s birthday party, he was dared to undress, people, “we were playing a game and I was asked to strip but I couldn’t stripe naked, it was crazy itself.”

He has been playing rugby since his secondary school until of late when he quit and gave a try to leadership. He works to serve, respect the people he serves and has learnt how to handle negative criticism and responsibility. He says politics and leadership are two different things and he has opted for leadership rather than politics. “The greatest thing to politicians is power but my interest is not power but serving the community.”

 He calls himself a peasant because he wants to live a low profile life. He says peasants are the Skelton and backbone of life. It is on those peasants that the whole world depends on; “everything we do, and our lives depend on peasants. People tend to think that peasantry is the last class of people they should be in.”  He has a dream of setting up one of the greatest and biggest farms in his land.

His involvement in politics, he says is to check the power of the people he works with. He is in no way an opposition member but wakes up the dormant and dozing cabinet members so that they can realize and perform the responsibilities. He was arrested in the recently concluded strike at Makerere University, on charges of inciting violence which he refuted. He was later released but he promised to keep fighting for the common cause.