"Women doing kimansulo are sent to prison while people swindling the country of millions are occasionally sacked and left to enjoy the proceeds of their corruption! "
Hi Rev... you have a point there!!
MK
Kimansulo bashing simply diversionary
The Monitor on-line edition of January 3 had a picture of some young women seated at the back of a Police truck who had been arrested doing kimansulo and were sentenced to three months in prison. One of them was visibly pregnant.
This raised some questions: were they doing their act in the field? If they had been doing so in some place of entertainment, surely one would expect the organiser also to be arrested, charged, and sentenced.
Court, in its wisdom, might have passed the right sentence, though I doubt it. I have resisted the urge to express moral opprobrium about kimansulo. Societies steeped in corruption and oppression usually get fixated on the subject of sexual morality and decency as a means of diverting attention away from the bigger questions of social exclusion and corruption. As Jesus metaphorically put it, âthey strain a gnat and swallow a camelâ!
Apartheid South Africa forbade pornography and sex between Blacks and Whites while operating a most inhuman political, social, and economic system. America, especially in the âBible beltâ criminalised sexual relations between Negroes and Whites.
But this puritanical society treated Blacks like chattels and White men did not hesitate to rape Black women. The Taliban fanatically imposed the Burkha and flogged women for so much as showing an ankle, and yet they presided over one of the most brutal regimes.
Women doing kimansulo are sent to prison while people swindling the country of millions are occasionally sacked and left to enjoy the proceeds of their corruption!
Rev. Amos Kasibante,
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