Museveni Wants Women To Be Financially Empowered To Beat The Vice Of Domestic Violence

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has added his voice to the fight against gender-based violence against women – GBV by calling for Women’s economic empowerment as a tactical way of ending the vice.

Museveni said the real problem in domestic violence is economic dependency where women rely on men for financial support and end up living at their mercy for almost every need.

As the country celebrated the International Women’s Day on Sunday at Mbale District Head Quarters, Museveni said the issue of violence is already provided for in the constitution against any Ugandan.

He said the only problem, however, is the mindset where men think it’s in order to perform the cowardly act on women while women are silent and don’t report because they of the traditional attitude that battering them is for love.

Besides this, the monetary factor sets in causing fear in women that no one will take care of their needs once the husband who is often the breadwinner of the family is charged and jailed for the offense.

The president noted that it’s imperative that men be sensitized on GBV because beating a woman is really cowardly and to ensure women are economically empowered and emancipated such that they stop depending on their husbands who subject them to torture.

He explained that there is a need to solve the issue of domestic violence by showing an example of how women can engage in the four sectors including commercial Agriculture, Industry ICT and public service for economic empowerment.

The celebrations were held under the theme “Celebrating 25 years of the 1995 Constitution: Milestones on promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in Uganda.”

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