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Baba Diri Commended for Mentoring PWDs

Alupo who represented President Museveni, said Baba Diri was a selfless, generous, hardworking and resilient person who overcame all odds despite the visual impairment and served the people of Koboko efficiently and effectively
17 Jan 2025 11:14
Vice President Jesica Alupo Laying wreath on the Casket Containing the Remains of Hon. Baba Diri in Koboko on Thursday.

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Vice President Jesica Alupo has described the late Hon Margaret Baba Diri as a political mentor. 

Alupo was speaking to thousands of mourners at the burial of the late Baba Diri at St. Charles Lwanga College Koboko playgrounds on Thursday. The late Baba Diri, the former Woman Member of Parliament for Koboko district died on January 9th in Kampala, she succumbed to a heart Attack. 

Alupo who represented President Museveni, said Baba Diri was a selfless, generous, hardworking and resilient person who overcame all odds despite the visual impairment and served the people of Koboko efficiently and effectively.  

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In response to requests to have a Secondary School for the blind in memory of Baba Diri and unfulfilled Presidential pledges for the people of Koboko, the Vice President pledged to follow up with the President.

Grace Hellen Asamo the State Minister for Disability Affairs said the late Baba Diri was a mentor to all including the PWD fraternity, which she represented and also worked tirelessly to lobby for developments for Koboko.     

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Sabino Ocan Odoki, the Bishop of the Diocese of Arua described her as a woman of virtues who should be emulated.   

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Margaret Baba Diri was visually impaired and joined Parliament in 1996 as a lawmaker for PWDs and later in 2005, she became the Woman MP for Koboko District until 2021, making her one of the longest-serving legislatures. 

She has been eulogized as a dedicated leader and an irreplaceable leader.  She went to Kyambogo University and worked at St. Charles Lwanga College Koboko as a Teacher, at the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda. 

She who was born on June 29 1954, was laid to rest at Our Lady of Fatima Koboko Catholic Parish.