Career
She represented her nation Uganda at the 2008 Summer Olympics, placing herself among the top 70 swimmers in the 50 m freestyle. Nakitanda was invited by FINA to compete as a 24-year-old swimmer for the Ugandan team in the women"s 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She threw down a scorching time and a lifetime best of 29.38 seconds to lead the third heat, but placed further in sixty-sixth overall out of ninety-two entrants.
Nakitanda is a graduate of medicine at Makerere University in Kampala.