Daily Monitor
Thursday April 22 2021
Some of the MPs-elect from Northern Uganda during the meeting with the President in Kyankwanzi District on
Tuesday. Photo | PPU.
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This was during a three-hour meeting with the legislators led by Mubende Municipality MP-elect Bashir Sempa, and Ms Shartsi Musherure, the Mawogola North MP-elect, last Saturday.
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President Museveni has pledged to work with newly-elected National Resistance Movement (NRM) legislators from the central region to deliver services to their electorates.
This was during a three-hour meeting with the legislators led by Mubende Municipality MP-elect Bashir Sempa, and Ms Shartsi Musherure, the Mawogola North MP-elect, last Saturday.
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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
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Daily Monitor
Thursday December 17 2020
L-R:
Top: Tom Okelloto, David Steven Magor, Daniel Emaasit and Patrick Opolot Isiagi.
Bottom: Sam Odeke Oita, George Steven Ekuma, Kenneth Eyatu and John Bosco Ikojo
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Mr Kenneth Eyatu’s focus is on health, education and the economic welfare of the people of Bukedea.
Mr Ekuma says he will lobby for creation of Bukedea Municipality and Malera County once in Parliament.
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The scramble to represent Bukedea District in the 12th Parliament has drawn 11 candidates, all of whom are determined to win the race.
Bukedea has two constituencies; Kachumbala and Bukedea. However, it is only the District Woman MP seat that faces no competition after incumbent Anita Among was declared unopposed.
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