Uganda Ex-Minister Dies In Her Sleep

Uganda Former state minister for public service Prisca Sezi Mbaguta has died, a very close family source told "monitor", an Uganda media outlet on Tuesday.

The veteran politician who spent the majority of her career serving in several important government positions between 1980 and 2016 "died in her sleep at roughly 77 from her home in Kampala," according to a family source who desired anonymity.

On January 10, around noon, family members were preparing for a meeting to discuss Mbaguta's burial arrangements.

She served as a state minister for President Museveni's administration from 2006 to 2011, and from 2011 to 2013, she served as a woman MP for the Rukungiri District for one term.

However, Mbaguta made headlines when she remarked in 2016 that "teachers complaining for greater remuneration should retire."

She had proposed submitting a resolution to parliament to require teachers to wear uniforms almost three years prior.

This was before she and Henry Muganwa Kajura, the public service minister at the time, avoided being censured in 2014 for allegedly engaging in payroll irregularities.

Mbaguta's tenure in parliament came to an end in another act of defiance against the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party when the 2016 elections were declared invalid by the court, resulting in a 2018 by-election where she finished third and lost as an independent candidate by less than 1,000 votes.