I am calling on the Ugandan Youths Minister to resign. He should step down and apologize publically to all the women and girls. Yes!! I have to get a good lawyer to file this case before the end of this week. This should send a powerful message to the Ugandan leaders abusing public offices.
A Youth State Minister Ronald Kibuule went on record to say a woman who is indecently dressed and is raped should face charges and the perpetrator should be set free.
More than 20 girls are raped everyday in Uganda but the silence continues. Most of these rapes are committed by close friends and relatives. But for people like Kibuule, the obsession with women’s bodies blind them from the reality. They blame clothes not perpetrators. Like many other instances in Uganda, a minister like Kibuule can abuse women and spread hate speech and incite violence and get away with it…..but this time round, he won’t get away with it.
More than the justice system we have a culture of silence and victim blaming. If a woman or girl is raped we have first find out if she didn’t ‘deserve’ it. We need a society that can support rape victims to be able to speak out with out rape apologists like Kibuule threatening them. If we have ministers who are on the side of rapists and actually advocating for rapist’s rights to rape we are far from the morality that we all like to go preaching about.
