Barumba Beatrice Rusaniya

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Barumba Beatrice Rusaniya
Born2 December 1964
NationalityUgandan
CitizenshipUgandan
OccupationPolitician
Years active2006-2016
EmployerParliament of Uganda
Known forPolitics
SuccessorSheila Mwine Kabaije
Political partyNational Resistance Movement

Barumba Beatrice Rusaniya (born 2 December 1964) is a female Ugandan politician. [1] She was the National Resistance Movement politician and the Member of Parliament for Kiruhura District in the eighth and ninth Parliament of Uganda. [2] In 2005, when Kiruhura district was created out of Mbarara District, Beatrice became its pioneer Woman Member of Parliament in 2006 and served until 2016. [3]

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Political life

In the 2016 to 2021 elections, she lost the elections. [4] She withdrew the election petition she filed challenging the election of her successor, Sheila Mwine Kabaije with allegation that the election exercise was marred with a lot of rigging among other irregularities. [5] Rusaniya was one of the Uganda’s representatives in the Pan African Parliament. [6] However, she was sick during the delegation. [6]

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