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Will new women leaders carry on the legacy? Eronie Kamukama Florence Alice Lubega emerges in a wheelchair, her aging face beaming with joy at the sight of a visitor. She is now 103 years old and still manages to remind us that she served as a legislator in Uganda back in the day. She is not just any legislator though. According to Lubega, there were five men and she served as the only woman on the Legislative Council (LEGCO) between 1958 and 1961. In 1962, she returned as Member of Parliament representing Ssingo North West Constituency, now present day Mityana and Mubende districts. This made her the first female Ugandan MP. “People voted for me. They wanted a woman in Parliament,” she says in her mumbling speech. Decades before Uganda’s independence, the role of women in Uganda’s politics remained restricted. It is only with independence and a new constitution in 1962, that women above the age of 21 were allowed the right to vote. The National Assem
Daily Monitor
Tuesday December 29 2020
Trucks bound for Uganda wait for clearance at Malaba on April 29. Uganda and Kenya continue to spar over trade after the latter imposed non-tariff barriers to curtail exports from neighbouring countries. PHOTO /FILE
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In October, President Museveni named his ruling NRM party former director of finance and administration, Mr Hassan Galiwango, as the High Commissioner, replacing Ms Phoebe Otaala, who resigned on July 6 to contest in the party primaries as Tororo District Woman MP.
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For two months now, Uganda’s High Commission in Kenya has been in turmoil over who is in charge.
Kenya, according to ministry of Trade, is Uganda’s top trading partner in Africa, and third in the rest of the world, hence of utmost importance, also by virtue of being our main gateway to the sea.