Background Information

Kaberamaido attained its current District status in July, 2001 through an Act of Parliament. Formerly it was part of Soroti District whose main town; Solot attained the status of the headquarters of Teso region in 1912. This was as a result of being recommended by Sir Fredrick Johnson, following his appointment as the new Governor of Uganda.

Prior to its current District status, Kaberamaido had earlier been granted a District status following a pronouncement by the then President of the Republic of Uganda, the late Idi Amin Dada. However, following an objection by a group of elders this status was scaled down to a Sub-District. Before the cancellation however, construction of the District headquarters at Kaberamaido Township had begun. A residential house for Assistant District Commissioner of the Sub-District was eventually built and completed, but the office block remained at foundation level up to today. Likewise, construction of the Uganda Commercial Bank block also stalled. However, a new post office was built to completion.

In the aftermath of the 1979 war, Kaberamaido like other parts of Uganda suffered from the effects of the political turmoil but continued to be administered as a Sub-District under the Central Government until the advent of decentralization when the two counties that currently constitute it were administered by Assistant Chief Administrative Officers under the mother District of Soroti.

However, with the mother Soroti District Local Government area of jurisdiction being vast, administrative and social services were not adequately reaching the population. Local leaders begun to advocate for the curving out of smaller but, effective District Local Governments from Soroti. This gave birth in 2001 to the current Kaberamaido District.