9 years of Tom Okurut as Uganda’s environmental policeman — the challenges, wins and the future Dr. Tom Okia Okurut has been the National Environment Management Agency (NEMA) Executive Director for 9 years now, since July 2011. In this interview with CEO East Africa’s Agaba Alfred Rhyman, he talks about his achievements, challenges, and frustrations. But all in all, he says, we all must remember that humans and not NEMA are the managers, destroyers, beneficiaries, and drivers of change in the environment and that all our actions on the environment have consequences.