Barumba Beatrice Rusaniya

Barumba Beatrice Rusaniya (born 2 December 1964) is a female Ugandan politician. She was the National Resistance Movement politician and the Member of Parliament for Kiruhura District in the eighth and ninth Parliament of Uganda. In 2005, when Kiruhura district was created out of Mbarara District, Beatrice became its pioneer Woman Member of Parliament in 2006 and served until 2016.

Political life In the 2016 to 2021 elections, she lost the elections. She withdrew the election petition she filed challenging the election of her successor, Sheila Mwine Kabaije with allegation that the election exercise was marred with a lot of rigging among other irregularities. Rusaniya was one of the Uganda’s representatives in the Pan African Parliament. However, she was sick during the delegation.