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  • Uganda: Musicians who perform almost naked should be arrested – Rachael Magoola

    Uganda: Musicians who perform almost naked should be arrested – Rachael Magoola

    Member of Parliament for Bugweri Woman, Rachael Magoola, has called on the government, through the Uganda Police, to take action against musicians who perform semi-naked at public events, in an effort to uphold cultural values and promote positive value systems, especially among the youth.

    During a breakfast meeting on tackling child sexual violence in Uganda at Fairway Hotel in Kampala on Wednesday, the musician-turned-politician, known for her hit song Obangainahit in the late 1990s, emphasized that the erosion of value systems is one of the most significant challenges facing Uganda’s younger generation.

    “Musicians have resorted to indecent dressing with almost their private parts revealed while performing anywhere and it has been normalised. You (police) need to arrest these people because the young people, especially girls and irresponsible adult women have copied these dressing styles. How will a parent stop a child from dressing decently yet they (children) see their mother dress the way they wish? Our policies and value systems are standing on the head and the legs are in the air yet the value systems are stuck in our cultural values,” Magoola said.

    She stated that the current generation perceives African culture as outdated and often links it to witchcraft.

    “When we talk of culture, in the current generation, people think it’s for the witch and they insult the person preaching decency. We have ignored who we are, to become who we are not, and become what we can’t handle through social media. We need to go back to the culture where the moral values and systems start from homes and churches. If you have the chairperson of Mother’s Union at church sitting down with women monthly and the women also sit down with their girls about the proper dress code and behaviour, we’ll have a decent society. Leaders at all levels have influence on their communities,” the legislator added.

    Organised under the theme united for protection, elevating advocates and erasing harmful practices, the meeting sought to, among other objectives, promote positive social -cultural norms and practices that protect rights of children from sexual abuse and violence and increase support and commitment from government line ministries and policy makers to prioritise implementation of policies and strategies that address sexual violence.

    Executive Director of Raising Teenagers Uganda, the Co-chair and the host organisation for The Brave Movement Uganda, Hope Nankunda, said the united for protection campaign reflects a holistic approach that addresses the immediate needs of vulnerable children while promoting sustainable, community-driven strategies.

    “This meeting is to catalyse collaboration among stakeholders and spark meaningful dialogue that will advance the collective mission of eliminating harmful practices affecting children and adolescents in Uganda. This will lead to more informed discussions and potentially early steps towards policy changes or interventions but also increased budget allocation towards child sexual abuse response in Uganda,” Nankunda said.

    According to the 2023 Uganda police annual crime report, a total of 14, 846 sex-related cases, representing 6.5 percent of the overall registered crimes in this category countrywide, were reported to police compared to 14,693 cases reported in 2022, giving an increase of 1.4 percent.

    The same report also says a total of 12,771 cases of defilement were reported to Police in 2023, compared to 12,580 cases reported in 2022, giving an increase by 1.5 percent in defilement cases registered countrywide. Of the defilement cases reported in 2022, 8,925 cases were defilement while 3,846 cases were aggravated defilement.

    The report adds that out of the defilement cases reported in 2023, 5,564 cases were taken to Court. Of these, 2,402 cases were not proceeded with while 4,805 cases are still under inquiry. Out of the cases taken to court, 940 cases secured convictions, 38 cases were acquitted, 414 cases were dismissed and 4,172 cases are still pending in court. A total of 5,671 suspects of defilement were arrested and charged in court, out of whom, 982 were convicted, 56 were acquitted, 400 discharged while 4,233 were still awaiting trial.

  • Greece-Turkey border: UN blasts ‘deeply distressing’ discovery of 92 naked migrants

    The UN refugee agency has expressed great worry over the finding of around 100 naked males at the Greek-Turkish border.

    Two countries have laid blame for the fate of the 92 migrants.

    Greece criticised Turkey for its “behaviour,” calling it a “shame for civilization.”

    Turkey branded its neighbour’s claims as “fake news” and accused it of “cruelty”.

    As both sides blamed each other, the United Nation’s refugee agency called for an investigation and said it was “deeply distressed by the shocking reports and images”.

    Greek police said they rescued the 92 men who were discovered naked, and some with injuries, close to its northern border with Turkey on Friday.

    They said an investigation by them and officials from the EU border agency Frontex, found evidence that the migrants crossed the Evros river into Greek territory in rubber dinghies from Turkey.

    “Border policemen… discovered 92 illegal migrants without clothes, some of whom had injuries on their bodies,” the statement said.

    Greek authorities said the men were immediately given clothing, food and first aid.

    It was not clear how and why the men had lost their clothes.

    Frontex said the men were mainly from Afghanistan and Syria, and that the organisation’s fundamental rights officer had been informed of a potential rights violation.

    Greek minister for civil protection, Takis Theodorikakos, accused Turkey of “instrumentalising illegal immigration” in the latest in a row over migration between the neighbours.

    Speaking on Greek television he claimed that many of the migrants had told Frontex that “three Turkish army vehicles had transferred them” to the river which acts as a border between the two countries. The BBC has not been able to independently verify this claim.

    “One would expect a working explanation from the Turkish government’s side,” Mr Theodorikakos said.

    A day earlier, Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said in a tweet that Turkey’s treatment of the migrants was a “shame for civilisation”. He said Athens expected Ankara to investigate the incident and “protect… its border with the EU”.

    The dispute has reached the highest level of government in Turkey, with tweets on behalf of the president denying any responsibility for what had happened and blaming Greece for the “inhuman” situation.

    “The Greek machine of fake news is back at work,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top press aide Fahrettin Altun wrote on the social media site.

    He described the allegations as “futile and ridiculous”, accusing Greece of not respecting the refugees by posting their pictures.

    In response, the UNHCR said it is “deeply distressed by the shocking reports and images”, but said it had not been able to speak to the group directly yet – something which it hoped would happen in the coming days.

    “We condemn any cruel and degrading treatment and call for a full investigation,” the UNHCR told the BBC.

    The discovery of the men comes days after a leaked report by an EU agency criticized some senior staff at Frontex for covering up illegal pushbacks of migrants by Greece to Turkey, something Athens denies. Frontex says such practices by its staff are a thing of the past.

    Last month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a UN address to accuse Greece of transforming the Aegean Sea into a “cemetery” and said it had “oppressive policies” on immigration.

    Greece was on the frontline of a European migration crisis in 2015 and 2016, when around a million refugees fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan arrived in the country, mainly via Turkey.

    The number of arrivals has fallen since then, but Greek authorities said they had recently seen an increase in attempted arrivals through the Turkish land border and the Greek islands.

    Greece has urged Turkey to respect a 2016 deal with the European Union in which Ankara agreed to contain the flow of migrants to Europe in exchange for billions of euros in aid.

    Athens will soon extend a 25-mile (40-kilometer) fence along its northern border with Turkey to prevent migrants from entering the country, Mr Theodorikakos said.