Chairperson local council ones warned against injustices against women and children.
Local council one chair persons have been warned against handling defilement cases and other injustices cases against women and children in their homes.
At the function of commemorating the 16days of Activism at Mundongo Primary school in Nyakiyumbu Sub County, the Resident District Commissioner of Kasese Lt. Joe Walusimbi sounded a warning that all those causing injustices against women and children risk to be jailed.
Lt. Joe Walusimbi who was the chief guest said according to the statistics that was reported in two years of 2020-2021, only 948 cases of defilement were reported in the District and only 32 cases managed by court meaning that other cases are being negotiated and compromised at local levels which is against the laws that protect women and girls.
The District senior probation and welfare officer Ms. Zainabu Asimwe said that 942 cases were reported in 2020 only in Nyakiyumbu sub county of which 48cases were reported by men and 92% cases were violations against women and girls which included 50cases of Defilement with an example of a 70year oldman defiling his biological grandchild.
In 2021, from January to November, 1042 cases were reported and only 31cases went up to court level.
Ms. Zainabu said that most cases are being reported when perpetrators have failed to negotiate and agree a reason which she said makes her office fail to handle since there is no one to follow up on such cases.
She added that Nyakiyumbu sub county is one of the sub counties where most cases are being reported unlike other sub counties that don’t report cases. However she attributed this to the efforts of NGO’s that have empowered citizens with skills of reporting.
Good hope foundation for rural development is one of the NGO’s that are implementing a program aimed at preventing violence against children and adolescents with funding from Children’s Rights and violence prevention fund-CRVP-F.
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