Ruhama County Member of Parliament, William Zinkuratire Beijukye, has passed away parliament has confirmed.
The Houses’ Commination’s Director Chris Obore said the MP passed on at Nsambya Hospital in Kampala last night where he had been admitted.
“He has been well for some months,” Obore told us in a text.
The MP had earlier been diagnosed with Hepatitis B, in India. Some of his family members and friends according to reports however, believe that Zinkuratire succumbed to poisoning which destroyed his internal organs.
Zinkuratire was elected Ruhama county MP in the last February 2016 polls on the National Resistance Movement (NRM) ticket.
He replaced the First Lady Janet Museveni who held the seat in the 8th and 9th parliaments.
Obore says burial details will be communicated after discussions with family members.
Zinkuratire becomes the fourth legislator to die this year.