Who is Bainomugisha Jane Kabajungu? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Kaliisa Jovrine Kyomukama, Nasasira Abia, Namara Immaculate, Kiconco Evalyne, Kaliisa Jovrine Kyomukama, and the early life and education of the current Ibanda district women’s representative in the Ugandan Parliament
Bainomugisha Jane Kabajungu is a Ugandan politician and youth advocate. She is commonly referred to as Omukyara Embandituka.
Bainomugisha is the current Ibanda district women’s representative in the Ugandan Parliament.
Jane is also politically affiliated with the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party.
Early Life and Education
Bainomugisha Jane Kabajungu was born in the western Ugandan town of Ibanda in the Ankole subregion.
She is a mother, a wife, and a church leader.
She has a Master of Public Administration and Management degree.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Bainomugisha Jane Kabajungu ran in the September 2022 primaries for the NRM flag bearer position of Woman Member of Parliament for Ibanda District. She defeated Kaliisa Jovrine Kyomukama, the former NRM flag bearer.
Bainomugisha ran against Kaliisa Jovrine Kyomukama, Nasasira Abia, Namara Immaculate, and Kiconco Evalyne in the 2021 general elections.
She received 44,638 votes to replace Kaliisa Jovrine Kyomukama, who received 42,803 votes after running independently.
She is the district’s third female parliamentarian since it was established in 2005.
Before becoming the Woman representative, she spent many years as the Head of Programmes at the National Youth Council’s political secretariat under the Ministry of Labour and Social Development.
Achievements and Awards
Bainomugisha Jane Kabajungu offered free sexual reproductive health care, including cervical cancer screening and management, to at least 200 women in the Kicuzi sub-county, Ibanda district, at Irimya health centre II.
Controversies
Bainomugisha, who was declared the winner of the September 4th, 2022 elections, had her victory overturned by the Election Tribunal in favour of the incumbent Jovrine Kaliisa.
Kaliisa filed a petition alleging that results were tallied incorrectly in 20 villages, which could have influenced the outcome that awarded Mrs Bainomugisha the NRM flag.
The tribunal decided that the election was marred by irregularities that affected the outcome after reviewing all affidavits sworn by Kaliisa and Bainomugisha, and sent the matter to the party’s electoral Commission.
Tanga Odoi’s team revoked results in eight villages where they stated there was a lot of turmoil that could have affected the result after assigning a team to the 20 contested villages.
Mrs Bainomugisha had won by a landslide in all eight villages where the results were overturned.
After the votes in the eight villages were cancelled, the remaining results favoured Jovrine Kaliisa, later declared flag bearer by Mr Odoi.
Bainomugisha appealed Tanga Odoi’s judgement through her lawyers at Ngaruye Ruhindi Spenser & Company Advocates, a matter that drew the attention of the party’s National Chairperson, President Yoweri Museveni, and Secretary General Kasule Lumumba.
Following internal party debate, the electoral commission reversed Kaliisa’s reported victory and returned the flag to Bainomugisha.
However, the letter addressed to Bainomugisha was not officially signed by the authorities, rendering the document “fake.” Hon Kaliisa stated that she would seek nomination because she possessed valid documents.
When Kaliisa and Bainomugisha bombarded the Electoral Commission in the District, they were turned down. The registrar stated that he was awaiting official communication from the appropriate authorities.
According to Odoi, Beinomugisha and her colleagues were intended to be detained because they had faked declaration paperwork that Moses Arimwerenga, the Ibanda district NRM registrar, used to declare her the winner with 37,606 votes to Kaliisa’s 37,439 votes, a 167-vote discrepancy.
However, following the recount, Kyomukama was declared the winner with 38.124 votes, while Jane received 37.666 votes.
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