The Catholic Archbishop of Kampala, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, has warned women against beating their husbands, saying they “should love and respect them”, Uganda’s privately owned Daily Monitor reports.
He was reacting to a police report about Mpingi district in the Uganda’s central region, which showed that five out 10 reported cases of domestic assault involved women beating their husbands.
The newspaper quotes the Archbishop of Kampala, which is Uganda’s capital, as saying women should accept men as the head of families:
Do you want to take over power from men in your families? I think you want to challenge God who tells us that men are the heads of the family.
Stop torturing the innocent servants of God. There is no need for you [women] to behave like some people we are seeing nowadays in the country who are merciless.”
Also in the same paper, in an unrelated event, the paramount chief of the Acholi ethnic group, Rwot David Onene Acana II, has told men to stop mistreating women:
Since we let women perform most domestic chores, why do we treat them harshly, why don’t we empower them.”
Coincidentally Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has launched a new campaign to tackle gender-based violence.
A statement from his office said he “strongly castigated the act of husbands beating their wives”.
