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Quiin Abenakyo leads youths to demand Kadaga bans Fik Fameica’s song ‘My Woman My Property’

Catherine Apolot by Catherine Apolot
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Quiin Abenakyo leads youths to demand Kadaga bans Fik Fameica’s song ‘My Woman My Property’

Speaker Kadaga with youth activists led by Miss Uganda Quiin Abenakyo

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A group of youth activists led by Miss World Africa also Miss Uganda Quiin Abenakyo, have petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, to expedite the passing of the Sexual Offences Bill to curb child marriage.

“We want a national law that criminalises child marriage because it is the top most challenge that girls in the eastern region are facing,” read the petition delivered at the launch of the ‘girls get equal’ campaign at Africana Hotel on Friday, June 14, 2019.

The campaign is spear headed by Plan Uganda and is geared at fostering rights and equal treatment of girls.

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Representing youth from the districts of Kamuli, Buyende, Tororo, Kamuli, Lira, Adjumani and Yumbe, the activists said they were bothered by the escalating cases of sexual slavery of Ugandan girls in the Middle East and appealed to government to investigate labour export companies.

They also tasked the Speaker to urge government to ban the airing of a song ‘My woman my property’ by local artist Fik Fameica , which they say presents women as property, chapati and yoghurt and thus lowers their position in the society.

On her part, Kadaga said she was equally concerned about the growing cases of child marriages in Uganda and cited examples in her constituency, Kamuli District.

“You can find an LC1 chairperson attending a wedding of children aged 15 in Kamuli District. We shall now arrest whoever we find at such a wedding,” said Kadaga.

She assured the activists that Parliament is progressing well on the Sexual Offences Bill, which she said will address sexual and gender-based violence suffered by girls and women.

“We nearly passed it in the last session but new issues came up for Parliament to address,” the Speaker said.

 



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