By Saidi Yakubu,
Bunge Staff
My heart goes out to Beatrice Shellukindo and my thoughts are with her children whom she loved and cared deeply.Beatrice was a charming woman and courageos leader.
In my many engagement with her she would always say "in my vocabulary,impossible doesn't exist" and she lived by that statement.
At one time we were travelling together in Nigeria and upon reaching Lagos from Port Harcourt my ticket was not confirmed in our onward journey and the flight was full, she collected all other MPs passports and approached the flight supervisor and told her "we are travelling as a group with him as delegation secretary he has the documents and our welfare arrangements if he cant travel please cancel all our onward journey as well" she said it in her usual sharp Beatrice tone such that the manager reluctantly upgraded one passenger to another class for me to travel with all other MPs. It was a lesson that always don't give up.
Beatrice was keen to understand something and once she does she will be a vocal advocate to the point of being labeled radical,her speeches in Parliament are a testimony to that.
Beatrice was a Parliamentary Service Commissioner and she fought hard for MPs welfare as well as staff but she was very hard on staff she knew they can do better.
Beatrice was a leader in high levels of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Africa Region and she championed women causes and made her name in the continent and beyond where she traveled to build alliances and goodwill for Africa's voice to be heard within the Commonwealth.
She was one of the very few MPs whom I talked to regularly after they finished their term and she was still in a fighting spirit though the body was weak few months ago when I last spoke to her.
We have lost an exemplary woman.
May God rest her soul in eternal peace.
Amin.
Its very Sad indeed, RIP Beatrice Shellukindo
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