Mugisa Margaret Muhanga

Mugisa Muhanga Margaret (born 4 June 1967), also known as Muhanga Margaret is a female Ugandan politician. She is also the State Minister for Primary Healthcare appointed by Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in 2021, Rotarian, journalist, development consultant and a businesswoman. Margaret was the Woman Member of Parliament of Kabarole District in the eighth and the Burahya County MP Kabarole District in the tenth parliament of Uganda. She later joined as the Woman Member of Parliament of Kabarole District of North Division Fort Portal City in the eleventh Parliament of Uganda under the National Resistance Movement political party. She is a Ugandan politician and member of parliament for North Division in Fort Portal City in the eleventh parliament of Uganda. She is affiliated to the National Resistance Movement. She is married to Michael Mugisa, the former District Chairman Kabarole and the executive director of National Forestry Authority with many children from whom she is a guardian to and many of them are orphans. She supported schools dropouts and also supported church construction She is also a sister to UPDF’s Maj. Gen Kayanja Muhanga and Maj. Henry Baguma, a historical Director under the Internal Security Organisation (ISO).

Career Margaret worked for New Vision in the 1990s covering parliamentary news. She was the Member of parliament for Burahya in Kabarole District in the tenth parliament of Uganda. She won the 2021 national elections to become the member of parliament for North Division in Fort Portal City. Margaret supported the lifting of the term limit bill in the tenth parliament. Margaret started the Uganda Parliamentary Journalists Association with Henry Ochieng who was the chairman and she was his vice chair. She served as an administrator at the office of the president.

Controversy In 2021, she told the former Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga that she would go back to Busoga and grow sugarcanes.

She among other people led a successful strike at Parliament and pulled out all the journalists from all media houses in 1999 and they told journalists not to go back for one week because they wanted an office and Parliament wasn’t giving it to them.