Kampala – Cecilia Barbara Atim Ogwal, the powerful Member of Parliament for the Dokolo District Women’s Constituency and former Miss Uganda, is dead.
Close family members said Ogwal succumbed to cancer at a hospital in India on breathing last on Thursday morning aged 77
“It is sad, Mama Cecilia Ogwal is no more, she is gone,” said a source who preferred anonymity citing privacy concerns.
Ogwal has been serving as a member of the parliamentary Committee of Physical Infrastructure in charge of overseeing and covering policy matters related to Lands, Housing, Urban development, Works and Transport, and Physical Planning