Daily Monitor
Sunday December 20 2020
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She succumbed to Covid-19 on Friday morning at Mulago National Referral Hospital.
Ms Ssentongo becomes the third MP to succumb to Covid -19 in just a space of three months after her counterparts Rehema Watongola (Kamuli Municipality) and Faith Alupo (Pallisa Woman MP) died of the disease.
Ms Ssentongo was well-liked and respected by her electorates and those she worked with during her career as a social worker which spans three decades.
When news about Ssentongo’s death reached Kyotera on Friday morning, her supporters were seen gathering in small groups, contemplating the next course of action after the death of their flag bearer.
Kyotera Woman MP, Robina Ssentongo succumbs to Covid-19
Friday December 18 2020
Kyotera Woman MP, Robina Ssentongo has died. She succumbed to COVID-19 Friday morning, the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has announced.
Ssentongo who has been representing Kyotera on the Democratic Party (DP) ticket has died at the age of 58.
She becomes the third MP to succumb to COVID-19 in just a space of three months after her counterparts Rehema Watongola (Kamuli Municipality) and Faith Alupo (Pallisa Woman MP) died of the disease.
Ssentongo’s death also comes barely a day after former Masaka district woman MP and the National Resistance Movement (NRM) flag bearer for the same seat, Freda Nanziri Kase Mubanda, died at Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi where she had been admitted.