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Seize the Moment: This isn't about rights, sit!
Seize the Moment: This isn't about rights, sit!: Ladies and Gents, the silly season is upon us. And you’re probably asking, “pray tell, what is this season’s scintillating topic?” Wel...
This isn't about rights, sit! ~ Seize the Moment
This isn't about rights, sit! ~ Seize the Moment
MissBwalya, my humble response, if I may is this, as a Ugandan, having lived in both Kenya and Zambia where you've correctly picked some of the cases to make your case here, is that....it is the confirmation that some of us have always shouted about. That there is WAR against and over a woman's body going on. The powers that be have nothing else really to do, I think. They can't help but focus on hammering the woman's body, the immediate environment that surrounds that body.
It is control, control, control. It is wagging war. It is a major distruction of what must really be addressed. To set the masses against the destructive state agents- police, inteliggence. It is a daring provocation to society, once more, to test if anyone has the guts to rise up to challenge.
Otherwise, why would anyone living in Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, etc not use the same tough legal and political stance to arrest any leader who has stolen resources meant to save lifes of women, children, the elderly?
It is because, as someone said, may be the law is for the most powerful and wealthy?
Why would a Ugandan Minister propose to legislate backwardness that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) fought against?
The Late Idi Amin Dada, Uganda's former president is said to have forced Ugandans found to wear slippers in public, to eat them! That was law-enforcement at work!
As UGANDANS, we must haste to recover the lost moral authority that corruption has erodded to begin pretending to steer the cause for morality. I can not give what I havenot, it doesn't matter whether I legislate it or not.
By the way, rape levels are reportedly very high in India even when most women dress is long traditional attires. In most Ugandan rural communities, sexual offences are common, a factor that has been exabitaed by so many civil wars. That didn't have anything to do with the lenght of skirts or size of other women dresses, does it?
If my minister really needs to start ethical work, simply ask for release of all young Ugandan women that are incarcerated due to what I call' poverty-offenses'.
Lastly, Uganda as a state party to UN conventions that protect children, youth and women, failed in many cases to protect, fulfil and promote the rights therefrom. What is totally unethical is that then we had to spend fur more money for so many years to fight Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and other rebels, the armed Karimojong warriors as a reactionary measure. As we did that, more women kept on losing lives due to preventable causes!
If the honorable minister need war, that is the war to tackle, not to follow women bodies, women's spaces. My sisters, daughters, mothers need safe space, not virtual prisons.
Conclusion, keep off monitoring and controlling, give real opportunities to women.
STOP women death that occur every 20 minutes. Be angry, take action. Be tough on women, education, employment, and health issues.
Society will handle its morals when freedoms and liberties are encouraged.
Defend and fend for the families and the moral issues will be sorted out. Legislate morals and lose your people.
To pretend to protect women but sneak in a freedom-killer is unethical Mr. Minister! Shame shame every thinks the same.
Another lame law want help. It will fall into the category of the Uganda Enguli Act, a piece of legislation that's been flouted day in day out! What is the point?
MissBwalya, my humble response, if I may is this, as a Ugandan, having lived in both Kenya and Zambia where you've correctly picked some of the cases to make your case here, is that....it is the confirmation that some of us have always shouted about. That there is WAR against and over a woman's body going on. The powers that be have nothing else really to do, I think. They can't help but focus on hammering the woman's body, the immediate environment that surrounds that body.
It is control, control, control. It is wagging war. It is a major distruction of what must really be addressed. To set the masses against the destructive state agents- police, inteliggence. It is a daring provocation to society, once more, to test if anyone has the guts to rise up to challenge.
Otherwise, why would anyone living in Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, etc not use the same tough legal and political stance to arrest any leader who has stolen resources meant to save lifes of women, children, the elderly?
It is because, as someone said, may be the law is for the most powerful and wealthy?
Why would a Ugandan Minister propose to legislate backwardness that the National Resistance Movement (NRM) fought against?
The Late Idi Amin Dada, Uganda's former president is said to have forced Ugandans found to wear slippers in public, to eat them! That was law-enforcement at work!
As UGANDANS, we must haste to recover the lost moral authority that corruption has erodded to begin pretending to steer the cause for morality. I can not give what I havenot, it doesn't matter whether I legislate it or not.
By the way, rape levels are reportedly very high in India even when most women dress is long traditional attires. In most Ugandan rural communities, sexual offences are common, a factor that has been exabitaed by so many civil wars. That didn't have anything to do with the lenght of skirts or size of other women dresses, does it?
If my minister really needs to start ethical work, simply ask for release of all young Ugandan women that are incarcerated due to what I call' poverty-offenses'.
Lastly, Uganda as a state party to UN conventions that protect children, youth and women, failed in many cases to protect, fulfil and promote the rights therefrom. What is totally unethical is that then we had to spend fur more money for so many years to fight Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and other rebels, the armed Karimojong warriors as a reactionary measure. As we did that, more women kept on losing lives due to preventable causes!
If the honorable minister need war, that is the war to tackle, not to follow women bodies, women's spaces. My sisters, daughters, mothers need safe space, not virtual prisons.
Conclusion, keep off monitoring and controlling, give real opportunities to women.
STOP women death that occur every 20 minutes. Be angry, take action. Be tough on women, education, employment, and health issues.
Society will handle its morals when freedoms and liberties are encouraged.
Defend and fend for the families and the moral issues will be sorted out. Legislate morals and lose your people.
To pretend to protect women but sneak in a freedom-killer is unethical Mr. Minister! Shame shame every thinks the same.
Another lame law want help. It will fall into the category of the Uganda Enguli Act, a piece of legislation that's been flouted day in day out! What is the point?
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