Gertrude Nakabira | |
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Member of the Parliament of Uganda for Lwengo District's Women's Representative Seat | |
In office 2011–2016 | |
Preceded by | New constituency |
Succeeded by | Cissy Dionizia Namujju |
Personal details | |
Born | 1962 |
Died | (aged 57) Kampala, Uganda |
Resting place | Kibengo, Sembabule District, Uganda |
Spouse |
Emmanuel Lubega
(m. 1988; died 2020) |
Gertrude Nakabira Lubega (1962 – 19 January 2020) was a Ugandan politician who served as Lwengo District's designated woman MP from 2011 until 2016. Prior to her election, she had a decades-long career in education, culminating in becoming Education Officer of Sembabule District.
Gertrude Nakabira Lubega was born in 1962.[1] She previously worked as a teacher and education consultant, spending thirty-five years in the former career.[2] In 2005, she became Education Officer of Sembabule District, serving until 2010.[2]
In the 2011 Ugandan general election, she was elected for the National Resistance Movement to Lwengo's designated women representative seat.[3] in 2013, during her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary at Kinoni Town Council, Rwampara district, President Yoweri Museveni praised "her commitment to development and poverty eradication in her constituency".[4]
In the 2016 Ugandan general election, she decided to leave the designated women representative seat in order to campaign for the Bukoto County South seat.[5][1] However, she faced accusations of academic credential fraud during the campaign, including a discrepancy between her declared date of junior education completion and her birth date.[1] In the end, she lost to Muyanja Mbabaali and left Parliament.[6]
After years of ill health, she was eventually admitted to Nsambya Hospital, where she died from cancer on 19 January 2020, aged 57.[2][7] She was later buried in Kibengo, Sembabule District on 22 January.[7]
She lived in Lwengo.[2] She had an older sister named Irene Nakabira.[1] She married Emmanuel Lubega in 1988.[4]