Byabashaijah was born in a humble family of a teacher in Rukungiri in 1957.
He attended Nyakishenyi, Kamwezi,Mukyayi primary school, Mutorere S.S in Kisoro before joining Makerere College for A-level. He later went on to study Veterinary Medicine at Makerere University where he graduated in 1982 and later pursued a Post-graduate Master of Science at the University of Glasgow which he completed in 1986
He joined Uganda Prison services in 1983 .
“Uganda was in a dark period of its history. There was no hope for short term improvement. I searched for a job where I was allowed to carry a gun to protect myself,” Byabashaija.
"The army created camps which they subjected to military control and subsequently abuse, Civilians outside the camps were presumed to be guerrilla sympathisers and were treated accordingly. Farms were looted as owners were killed. Practicing veterinary medicine upcountry was dangerous,” Byabashaija
“There was a war raging in in Luweero Triangle, a place where all the country’s cattle were. That is where one aspired to work. At that time if you had no gun you were nothing. I can assure you, it had never occurred to me previously that I would one day join the armed forces.”
“I applied and was admitted as a cadet in the Uganda Prisons Services in 1983,” he says. Serving under the UPS, he could now comfortably practice veterinary medicine at the prisons farm in Kigo on Entebbe Road
"I worked myself up in the service. For five years I was the deputy officer in charge at Kigo, after which I served for eight years as officer in charge at Kigo Prison. I was then moved to prisons headquarters,”
In 2005, Byabashaija was appointed as the Commissioner General of Uganda prison Service
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