Who is Charity Bainababo? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Col. Dr Nekesa, Lt. Dr Alanyo, Lt. Col. Mwanga, Brigadier Felix Busizoori, the early life and education of the current Member of Parliament representing Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF)
Brig. Charity Bainababo is a Ugandan legislator and military commander.
She is a member of Uganda’s eleventh parliament and represents the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF).
Charity Bainababo is the Special Forces Command’s (SFC) current Deputy Commander.
Early Life and Education
Charity Bainababo was born in 1975 to a retired police officer.
When Bainababo was a child, she observed firsthand the dangers of deteriorating human security when State operatives brutalised her father in ways that reflect some of today’s horrible rights violations.
Charity Bainababo received her primary education at Kako Primary School. She then went to St Charles Lwanga Kalungu Girls for her O’level studies and Progressive Secondary School for her A’level studies.
She later enrolled in Nkumba University, earning a Bachelor’s in Marketing.
Charity attended Uganda Management Institute (UMI) and earned a Post Graduate Diploma in Information Systems Management. In 2019, she returned to UMI to obtain a Masters Degree in Information Systems Management.
She later completed her Master’s Degree in Defence and Strategic Studies at Makerere University, graduating in May 2021.
Bainababo Charity joined the military forces in 1998 after completing basic training at the Kabamba training facility in the Mubende area.
She went through Cadet training from 1999 to 2000 before enrolling for a company commander course in 2008.
From 2016 to 2017, she attended the Senior Command and Staff College Kimaka.
Charity Bainababo is a mother of two boys.
Career and Professional Work Experience
In 1998, Bainababo was on the verge of finishing her three-year Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree at Nkumba University when she was called up to join the military.
She was later rehatted as part of the famous May 1999 Intake Six, which included First Son Muhoozi Kainerugaba, currently a Lt Gen and head of the UPDF Land Forces.
Lt Col Bainababo was Uganda’s first lady and Education Minister Janet Kataha Museveni’s private ADC (Aide-de-camp) and security head.
President Museveni, also the commander in chief of the armed forces, promoted Lt Col Charity Bainababo to Colonel in April 2021. She was the commander of the Police Presidential Guard (PPG) at the time.
Bainababo was then assigned as the commander of Special Force Group 1 (SFG 1).
The Army Council was required to elect 10 representatives to Parliament in 2021, including three women.
Col. Dr Nekesa received the most votes (339), followed by Lt. Dr Alanyo (276) and Lt. Col. Bainababo (282). As a result, despite receiving 247 votes, Lt. Col. Mwanga was not elected.
Charity Bainababo became the first woman to command the Special Forces Command (SFC) in April 2022.
Prior to this, President Museveni promoted her from Colonel to Brigadier General and named her Deputy Commander of the SFC.
She took over as second-in-command from Brigadier David Mugisha, who was reassigned to the third division.
She is now deputising Brigadier Felix Busizoori, the acting commander of SFC.
This came after the duty commander, Brigadier Peter Chandia, was sent to the Uganda National Defence College as one of their initial students.
Achievements and Awards
Charity Bainababo has progressed rapidly in the ranks in just over two years after having served in the army for over 24 years, from the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Colonel, and then to Brigadier General.
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni named Brig Bainababo Charity as deputy commander of the elite Special Forces Command, making her the first woman to hold the position.
Bainababo is also an Army representative in Uganda’s parliament, as well as the Dean of Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) MPs.
Bainababo is credited with forming the Presidential Police Guard (PPG), which she commanded for a long time while serving as a police commissioner, making her the first Commander.
Controversies
Brigadier Charity Bainababo confessed to attacking a Ugandan diplomat in Bujumbura, Burundi in early May 2023 while there as head of President Museveni’s advanced security team for the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Peace, Security, and Cooperation Framework.
Bainababo was meeting with Ugandan diplomats at the Ugandan Embassy in Bujumbura when she argued with the Foreign Service employee in charge of protocol, Solomon Kasasira.
During the heated discussion, Bainababo threw a mug at Kasasira. She accused the diplomat of being rude and abusive towards her.
Kasasira was hazy on information when approached and claimed Bainababo’s mug fell by accident.
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