Dokolo District Women’s Constituency Member of Parliament and former Miss Uganda, Cecilia Ogwal is dead, Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament Ms Anita Among announced Thursday.
Media reports indicate that the 77-year-old Ogwal succumbed to cancer at a hospital in India.
“It is with a heavy heart and pain that I announce the passing of our Mother, Mentor and role model Imat Cecilia Atim Ogwal, the Honourable Member representing the Women of Dokolo District. I send my sincere sympathies to her dear husband and the family, friends, the people of Lango and colleagues! May her soul find eternal rest,” Among posted on her official X platform.
At 23, Cecilia Ogwal won the first Miss Uganda held in 1969 at the Apollo Milton Hotel (current Sheraton).
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