Idah Nabayiga
Idah Nabayiga (born 14 November 1979) is a Ugandan politician and the District Woman Representative for Kalangala District in Uganda's 10th Parliament. She is also a member of the National Resistance Movement on whose ticket she ran on in the 2016 general elections.
Background[edit]
Idah Nabayiga was born in Kalangala District
Education[edit]
Idah Nabayiga attended Memere Primary School . In 1994, she joined St. Henry's Buyege Secondary School for both her O and A levels . She later joined Makerere University in 2003 for a Bachelor of Arts degree. Idah Nabayiga also holds a Certificate in Administrative law obtained from Uganda's Law Development Centre in 2008. in 2011, she obtained a Postgraduate diploma in Human Resource Management from the Uganda Management Institute. Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Public Administration and Management still at Uganda Management Institute.[1]
Career[edit]
Before joining representative politics, Idah Nabayiga worked as a Community development Officer under Kalangala District Local Government between 2006 and 2012. Later on, between 2012 and 2015, she served as a Human Resource Officer still under the same administration.
Idah Nabayiga trained as a teacher and in Uganda's 10th Parliament, she serves on the Education and Sports Committee.[2]
Controversy and activism[edit]
Idah Nabayiga was cited as one of the National Resistance Movement MPs who defied President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on the Mobile money Tax in 2018[3]
A newspaper poll in 2017, listed Idah Nabayiga as one of the Members' of Parliament who had voted against the lifting of the Presidential Age Limit Bill.[4] She reportedly declined the vote because of a possible fear of lynching by her electorate.[5]
She has also been on record as having rejected the Uganda Government's denial of the Uganda People's Defence Force brutality against fishing communities on Lake Victoria.[6][7]
Personal life[edit]
Idah Nabayiga is married.[2]
In 2016, she survived a motor accident when a car in which she was travelling overturned[8]
References[edit]
- ^ "Parliament of Uganda". parliament.go.ug. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Parliament of Uganda". parliament.go.ug. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- ^ Ocaido, Patrick. "NRM MPs Who Defied Museveni on Mobile Money Tax Listed – theinsider.ug". Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Team, Observer. "Age limit battle: Who is winning?". The Observer – Uganda. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ Reporter, Our. "Afraid of being lynched, NRM MPs abandon age limit | edge". Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Govt Denies UPDF's Involvement in Brutality Against Fishing Communities". Online news from Uganda and the East African region – SoftPower News. 8 October 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Parliamentarians want UPDF out of fishing communities". Capital FM. 26 September 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Kalangala Woman MP in motor crash". Daily Monitor. Retrieved 8 March 2019.