Who is Atwakiire Catheline Ndamira? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Eng Didas Ndamira, late Ronald Hakiziman Bifafusha, National Resistance Movement (NRM), the early life and education of the current Kabale District woman representative in Uganda.
Atwakiire Catheline Ndamira is a politician and entrepreneur from Uganda.
Hon. Atwakiire is the current Kabale District woman representative. She has held the position since 2016 making this her second term in office.
Catheline is a member of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) political party.
Early Life and Education
Atwakiire Catheline Ndamira was born on 13 August 1977 in Mparo, Kabale District in the Western Region of Uganda.
Atwakiire Catheline is married to Eng Didas Ndamira.
She pursued her secondary education at Rubirizi Senior Secondary School and Kihanga Girls High School.
Catheline joined Makerere University Business School (MUBS) to study Business and she graduated with a certificate in Business Administration in 2008.
She continued her education at Makerere University Business School and graduated with a diploma in 2010.
She then moved on to Uganda Martyrs University in Nkozi where she graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration and Management in 2014.
Career and Professional Work Experience
Atwakiire Catheline Ndamira worked as a financial Administrator at VIDAS Engineering Services Co. LTD between 2010 and 2015.
She then joined politics and was unanimously elected as the Kabale District woman representative in the February 2016 general election.
Hon. Atwakiire Catheline is also a member of the Public Accounts Committee and the Committee on Health in the Eleventh Parliament of Uganda.
Atwakiire Catheline Ndamira again contested in the 2021 General elections as a Candidate for Women Representative (MP) of Kabale District on the NRM ticket.
She garnered 45,738 votes and won the election over her competitors Atuheire Enid Origumisiriza, an Independent candidate who garnered 41,632 votes and Natukunda Susan of the Forum for Democratic Change political party who garnered 2,515 votes.
Achievements and Awards
To be dispersed throughout the district’s medical facilities, Hon Atwakiire Catheline Ndamira donated a variety of medical equipment to Kabale District in March 2023.
The Legislator successfully petitioned the Ministry of Health to provide the equipment, which consists of 60 hospital beds, 34 mattresses, 60 brackets, and 120 bed-sheets.
Atwakiire noted that she campaigned for the distribution of the equipment to lesser health centres in various sub-counties in an effort to improve healthcare and also ease traffic at Kabale regional referral hospital.
To increase the household income of three villages in Kabale Municipality, Hon Atwakiire Catherine donated piglets in November 2022.
Controversies
Voters in Kabale rejected Atwakiire’s proposal to appoint his wife in the position once held by the late Ronald Hakiziman Bifafusha, Deputy Speaker of the Kabale Municipality.
On January 23, 2022, Bifabusha who was also the Lower Bugongi Ward delegate and a well-known NRM zealot passed away at Kamukira Health Centre IV after losing the battle against diabetes.
Ndamira recommended during his funeral service at St. Luke Bugongi Catholic Church that his widow, Ms. Deborah Owembabazi, be elected without opposition to finish the race that her late husband started.
Ndamira retorted that the late Bifabusha would not be the first family member to succeed him.
Ndamira urged Lower Bugongi people to support the widow of the late Bifabusha instead of anyone else running for office in the by-election to fill his seat on the Kabale Municipal Council.
When MP Catherine Ndamira sought to prevent music by her fellow MP Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) from being played at a wedding she was attending, residents of Kyanamira Sub County in Kabale district attacked her.
At the wedding reception for Emmanuel Bagarukayo and Sarah Nyirabagabe, the MP was aggressively heckled by the guests.
The chaos began when Ndamira was allowed to address the people in attendance; she started by criticising the DJ for playing Bobi Wine songs.
Atwakiire claimed that the DJ had no business playing Bobi Wine songs because the wedding was taking place on NRM Liberation Day.
However, the guests didn’t wait for her to finish speaking before booing her and screaming “People Power, Our Power.”.
Shortly after, Hon Ndamira was seen exiting the wedding.
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