Minister for Gender and Culture Peace Mutuuzo’s warning to school matrons against initiating young girls into labia elongation is continuing to receive backlash and now its Kampala Central Member of Parliament, Muhammad Nsereko joining the queue of disagreeing with the Minister.
Nsereko says Mutuuzo has no moral authority to discredit ‘pulling’ especially before involving cultural stakeholders.
“Let’s leave matters of culture to cultural leaders. You may cause unnecessary riots,” Nsereko says.
The legislator went comical relating the tradition act of visiting the bush to the NRM liberation war.
“Remember the NRM government came from the bush (munsiko), so don’t just think that ‘visiting the bush’ is completely useless,” he asserts. He urges the Minister to leave the ‘Ssengas and Kojjas’ to do their work.
“Where I agree though is that it should
not be forceful. As for Female Genital Mutilation, it is inhuman and degrading,”
he says.
Speaking at the Uganda Media Centre yesterday, Mutuuzo said government is ready
to fight all cultural practises that do not add value to human life or health.
She said her Ministry needs an increase in the budgetary allocation from the current Shs200 million to Shs1.2 billion to help fight female genital mutilation which is predominant in Sebei sub-region in eastern Uganda.