Gertrude Nakabira
{{Short description|Ugandan politician (1962–2020)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Use Ugandan English|date=October 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = Member of the Parliament of Uganda for Lwengo District's Women's Representative Seat
| term_start = 2011
| term_end = 2016
| predecessor = New constituency
| successor = Cissy Dionizia Namujju
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1962}}
| death_date = {{Death date and given age|2020|01|19|57|df=y}}
| death_place = Kampala, Uganda
| resting_place = Kibengo, Sembabule District, Uganda
| spouse = {{marriage|Emmanuel Lubega|1988|2020|end=d.}}
}}
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.
Biography
Gertrude Nakabira Lubega was born in 1962.{{Cite news |last=Bindhe |first=Edward |date=2015-01-21 |title=MP Nakabira Accused of Holding Forged Academic Papers |work=Uganda Radio Network |url=https://ugandaradionetwork.net/story/mp-nakabira-accused-of-holding-forged-academic-papers |access-date=2023-10-21}} She previously worked as a teacher and education consultant, spending thirty-five years in the former career.{{Cite news |date=2020-01-19 |title=Former Lwengo woman MP Gertrude Nakabira succumbs to cancer |language=en |work=Daily Monitor |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/former-lwengo-woman-mp-gertrude-nakabira-succumbs-to-cancer-1870520 |access-date=2023-10-21}} In 2005, she became Education Officer of Sembabule District, serving until 2010.
In the 2011 Ugandan general election, she was elected for the National Resistance Movement to Lwengo's designated women representative seat.{{Cite web |date=2011-03-29 |title=LIST OF ELECTED MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT |url=http://www.ec.or.ug/sites/Elec_results/Elected%20MPs%202011%20General%20Elections.pdf |access-date=2023-10-21 |page=3 |format=pdf}} 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".
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.{{Cite news |last=Ssejjoba |first=Eddie |date=2015-07-20 |title=Judith Babirye, Nabakooba pick nomination forms |language=en |work=New Vision |url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1330723/judith-babirye-nabakooba-pick-nomination-forms |access-date=2023-10-21}} 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. In the end, she lost to Muyanja Mbabaali and left Parliament.{{Cite news |last=Ssekweyama |first=Ezekiel |date=2020-01-19 |title=Former Lwengo Woman MP Gertrude Nakabira Dead |work=Uganda Radio Network |url=https://ugandaradionetwork.net/story/former-lwengo-woman-mp-gertrude-nakabira-dead |access-date=2023-10-21}}
After years of ill health, she was eventually admitted to Nsambya Hospital, where she died from cancer on 19 January 2020, aged 57.{{Cite news |date=2020-07-19 |title=Former Lwengo Woman MP Nakabira laid to rest |language=en |work=Daily Monitor |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/former-lwengo-woman-mp-nakabira-laid-to-rest-1871168 |access-date=2023-10-21}} She was later buried in Kibengo, Sembabule District on 22 January.
She lived in Lwengo. She had an older sister named Irene Nakabira. She married Emmanuel Lubega in 1988.{{Cite news |date=2013-12-01 |title=Respect families, says Museveni |language=en |work=New Vision |url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1335203/respect-families-museveni |access-date=2023-10-21}}
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Category:Members of the 9th Parliament of Uganda
Category:Women members of the Parliament of Uganda
Category:21st-century Ugandan women politicians
Category:People from Lwengo District