Kampala, (UG):- The National Unity Platform (NUP) Monday announced that the party deputy president for Western Uganda, Jolly Kyomugasho Mugisha is dead.
Jolly passed on Monday afternoon from Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital where she had been admitted in a coma for several weeks according to NUP President, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine.
“It’s with great sadness that I announce the passing of Hon. Jolly Mugisha, the National Unity Platform Deputy President for Western Uganda. Mama Jolly has passed on this afternoon from Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital where she has been admitted in a coma for several weeks,” Kyagulanyi, the former presidential candidate posted on X platform (formerly Twitter) on Monday evening.
“Mama Jolly will always be remembered as a true Ugandan heroine. Other communication will be made in due course. Rest in perfect peace, comrade Maama!” he added.
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Born in Buhanama Itojo Ntungamo District, Kyomugasho, 61, was known by many different faces because she did a lot of things. She was an evangelist, politician, student of theology, counsellor and gender activist.
She once worked as a consultant with the Ministry of Finance doing gender budgeting in Karamoja Sub-Region.
The mother of three got married in 1985 but unfortunately, her husband passed on in 1992. Although she was left with nothing much following her husband’s passing, Jolly successfully educated her children and they all became independent successful adults.
“I sincerely thank God who helped me through everything up to now,” Kyomugasho said in a 2013 interview with local publication Monitor.
Molly’s Journey to join Bobi Wine in NUP
A social worker by training and a politician by conviction, Jolly joined NUP in July 2020 and was appointed to head the party in Western Uganda, the area which is home to the majority of leaders and founders of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), including the president.
She also served as the vice chairperson of Uganda’s National Consultative Forum for all registered Political Parties and organizations (N.C.F), where she was representing NUP.
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), an executive Non-departmental Public Body sponsored by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office says Molly’s passion for social change against injustices started at an early age. This was, according to WFD, inspired by the inherent patriarchal biases that defined her society where, she was the only one among her six sisters who went to school and completed education without being pulled out for marriage, free manual labour, discrimination, and other gender stereotypes that affected girl children at the time.
As a top leader in the opposition politics and through holding several management-level positions, Kyomugasho’s emphasis was on promoting unity, mobilising more people for civic engagement, training the elected ones to become better legislators for better pro-people policies and offering leadership to her party and other opposition parties that are fighting for democracy, rule of law and good governance. She was committed to making a positive change in people’s lives in Uganda.
By press time, details surrounding her burial were still scanty as the NUP leadership said they would be communicated in due course. May her soul rest in peace.
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