During a media workshop with the Parliamentary Journalists, the Executive Director of CEDOVIP Tina Musuya says that they strongly agree with the President to deny bail for rapists and defilers.

Tina Musuya of CEDOVIP

Musuya says many children and women have fallen victim of rape and defilement and yet the culprits are granted bail which causes emotional trauma to the families of the victims.

She has urged the law makers to seriously consider the view of the President particularly for the two crimes committed since they have lasting impacts on the victims.

Recently, the President passionately spoke about his desire to have the constitution amended so that rapists, defilers, rioters and economic saboteurs are denied bail.

The constitution provides for the granting of bail terms as the Justice or magistrate may deem necessary, adding that bail is a human right to which every suspect is entitled.

The president’s proposal however includes denying bail to economic saboteurs, people who incite violence among other categories that have been criticized as aimed at easily locking up opposition activists.

By Isaac Senabulya, Ultimate Media

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The women have marched through Kamwokya, Lugogo Bi-pass through Yusuf Lule road back to Kiira road playground.

The women were also carrying empty sauce pans and pots saying they are unable to buy food due to high commodity prices in the country.

The women were also carrying banners reading bullets can’t be food and respect women bodies during arrest.

The women also issued a statement to the UN special rappel tour envoy for human rights Margret Sekajja and are also planning to deliver another report to the president of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

Sekajja argued the government to intervene in the demanda raised by the women calling for obsaevance of human rights.

The executive director for ICC women network Ruth Ojambo Ocheng praised the police this time in the way police handled their demonstration.

Among the organizations that were involved in the match included UWONET, ACFORD, ICC and Centre for women in governance among others.

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias

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