You can‟t talk about Uganda educationists and omit Fagil Mandy. The man who Introduced Cross Country In Uganda‟s schools  Composed the national schools prayer  Streamlined Inspections process in schools through introducing Minimum Standards for schools as commissioner at the Ministry of education  Headed Kitante Primary School at the age of 28 years Fagil is not sure of the month he was born but celebrates any Monday of his wish in November. He was born in a grass thatched house in Butulya village Kichwamba sub county on the foots of mountain Ruwenzori in Kabalore district by Mariam Nanfuka in 1948. He comes from a home of his grandmother whose uncles he confirms couldn‟t read nor write a clear manifestation of poverty. His father was Amir Afzal Khan a Muslim Pakistan who worked as a post master at Fort Portal post office. Fagil never saw his father in life. He is religiously silent but a Muslim by birth who was named Musa. He only saw a photo of his father standing with a hunting gun with his friend. He analyzed his father as a super performer who dressed a right cloth for a right job, and a far eastern origin that Africans believed are naturally wise people an insight that shaped him to be an extra ordinary individual. As a creative young man at the age of 15, he created the name Fagil to sound like his father‟s names. This name is nowhere else. Mandy attended Kyebando Primary School, Kyebando Erisa Primary School, Makerere CU P/S and Jinja Kaloli for Pri and went to Kalinabiri and Kisaasi Junior Schools before proceeding to Lubiri Secondary While at Lubiri he was class monitor for S1,2, and 3 and later head boy in S4 in 1967. In 1968, he was then admitted to National Teachers College Kyambogo for his Diploma in Education majoring in Physical Education and Science. Nine years later, he Joined Makerere on Mature Age Entry for his BA in Literature and English language. He owns a Masters in Drama studied at Leeds University UK in 1983 on British Council Scholarship. This great educationist used to wash his feet on the grass dew while in P3 – P6 to reach school with clean feet to avoid embarrassments on school health parades during inspections. Mandy‟s sports spirit was deeply influenced by Mr. Mabirizi, a National Football Team player of the 60s who was a village citizen neighbor and a celebrity the village was proud of. He is one of the eight teachers who were the first teacher trainees of Physical Education in the country. In 1970, he was posted to Nyondo Primary Teachers College as PE tutor, he was later transferred to Shimon Teachers College. While conducting a PE lesson to Students 3 years after his graduation, Late Mr. Kakooza the principal of Shimon TTC walked to him and whispered to him to end the lesson with immediate effect. He concluded the lesson and went to meet his boss who The Great Educators Journal 2017 Vol 1 Pg 24 introduced him to the Kampala District Education Officer who had come to pick him to go and administer Old Kampala Primary. From Old Kampala he was posted to Kampala Primary School and in 1977, posted to Kitante Primary School at the age of 28 where he introduced cross country that all schools do now days. Because Kitante Primary School was interreligious and parents complained of christian prayers said on assemblies, he composed a balanced prayer to harmonize this religious issue which later was adopted by the ministry as the national schools Prayer. Below is the prayer Look at me Oh God, As my heart silent all, To you all I turn, for the sins I have committed, I pray to be forgiven. In all that I have been good, I pray to be encouraged, For under your guidance oh God, Where all is peace I will be led. Not to sob but to rejoice, As my hand in yours lies Fagil has worked as a Residential District Commissioner of Kapchorwa, Tororo, Kabalore. He also worked as a lecture at Makerere University, Deputy Commissioner for Education and Commissioner for Inspection in the ministry of Education and Sports where he chaired a committee that set the minimum standards for inspectors to follow while inspecting schools. Fagil is married to Florence Nyakana Mandy with 6 children He has travelled across the world in countries like USA, UK, France, Denmark, Sweden, India, South Korea, North Korea, France, Denmark, Sweden, Thailand, Sudan, Austria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Libya, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, Rwanda, The Democratic Republic of Congo and has visited atleast every district in Uganda either on official or on private businesses. He is a retired public civil servant now fully running his consultancy firm in education. He is the former UNEB chairperson who succeeded Prof. Lutalo Bbosa