Catherine Lamwaka, the Omoro woman member of Parliament credentials is among the female members of parliament from Northern Uganda whose names have been proposed for the office of the Deputy Speaker after the Patriotic League of Uganda (PLU) confirmed that there is already guidance on the office of the Speaker of the 12th Parliament, according to David Kabanda, the General Secretary of the league. Former Minister of Defence Oboth Oboth is considered for the job pending approval by the NRM CEC, and the Deputy position shall require a female for gender balance.
According to impeccable Sources, five women MPs from Northern Uganda are being vetted for the position to be considered for the NRM Central Executive Committee.
The Elephant can confirm authoritatively that Aber Lilian, Kitgum Woman MP, who served as Minister of State for Refugees in the OPM Office, and Lamwaka Catherine, Omoro Woman MP, are the ones competing highly for the position. To confirm this, in one of his tweets, the Secretary General of the PLU, David Kabanda, mentioned that he is aware that women from Northern Uganda are fighting for the remaining position of the Deputy Speaker. Although he didn’t mention any of the names that this platform has landed on.
Why is Lamwaka Catherine a contender for the position?
Lamwaka Catherine is a Member of the 12th parliament serving her third term uninterrupted on the NRM ticket. In the 11th parliament, she served as chairperson of Foreign Affairs; she was also Deputy Chairperson of Uganda Women Parliamentarians and Deputy Chairperson of Tourism, Trade and Industry, as well as Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs committees that she has served with distinction and integrity.
Lamwaka Catherine started politics at the university, where she was the Deputy Guild President at Gulu University from 2003 to 2004, before she joined Amuru District Local Government as a Community Development Officer from 2007 to 2010. Immediately, she joined parliamentary Politics with knowledge of community service and trust, then attempted to contest the legendary Betty Bigombe for the Amuru District woman MP seat in 2011.
As a loyal cadre according to NRM diehards, this platform engaged with, she was talked off the race, and the President appointed her RDC of Pader District Local Government and later RDC Gulu District until 2015.
In 2016 as an NRM flag bearer, she was defeated by Aol Betty Ochan (FDC) for the woman MP seat for Gulu, however she had won Betty Ochan (FDC) in Omoro County which was then part of Gulu, as luck would have it, Omoro was curved as a district later in 2016 and she won the elections as the First Woman Mp with Okello Douglas Peter as the first District Chairperson of the District.
The People of Omoro re-elected her on the NRM ticket in the 2021 election with big expectations of a Ministerial position to no avail. Now that Omoro District in the 2026 election got 93% for the president, making Omoro District the leading district in giving the President votes in the Acoli subregion, the people of Omoro are eagerly waiting for the reward news of their MP, based on the fact that she is experienced, loyal, and dependable over the years.
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