Provide Pro-Bono Services To Girls MP-Urges Judiciary

By Juma Nsubuga

Mokono district woman MP Hon Hanifa Nabukeera has urged Judiciary to provide Pro-bono services to girls, and women who are raped and defiled.

Hon Nabukeera made this request at a dialogue organized by the equal opportunities commission on issues of discrimination, marginalization, and exclusion against women and girls held at Kingdom mall in Kampala today.

She said that there are so many unprivileged girls and women who have been disassociated from society due to defilement and rape.

“I urge the judiciary to also provide legal aid clinics such that they can provide services to girls and women who are raped and defiled because when they report to police, cases are modified by the police and when they try to go to courts of law, cases delay,” she said adding that even elderly are also raped and cases stop at the LC level,” Hon Hanifa Nabukeera noted.

They fore urge the judiciary to get to the ground and curb problems that are heating girls and women.

Meanwhile the chairperson of Uganda Women’s association (UWOPA) also Tororo district woman MP Sarah Opendi has also made an alarm about the rampant sex trade in towns, especially Kampala.

The angry Opendi has appealed to the communities and leaders to be on the lookout for people who practice the sex trade.

“People rent Bangalos and hold girls and women hostage and the victims have no access to help,” she said adding that this practice should be fought so that it doesn’t spread to other districts.

The chairperson of the equal opportunities commission (EOC) Hajjat Sofia Nalule Juuko also added that EOC is concerned about a number of issues that continue to affect women socially, economically, and politically in the environment that surrounds them (women) including climate change .