Matembe’s famous quotes
Jan 08, 2010
“I don’t support the idea that gender equality and women empowerment should be attained at the cost of the family,†the former ethics minister, Miria Matembe, said in December 2009, on the Domestic Relations Bill.
“I don’t support the idea that gender equality and women empowerment should be attained at the cost of the family,†the former ethics minister, Miria Matembe, said in December 2009, on the Domestic Relations Bill.
“The party I belong to is that of the Ministry of Jesus. We (women) should have a common agenda when it comes to issues affecting us,†she said in June 2009, in Bushenyi.
“Those who said I have betrayed Museveni should think twice. I support Museveni, but I do not support him in matters that mislead the country.
Museveni worked for Uganda, I also did a lot for Uganda, but my major concern was that the NRM wanted to ‘pocket’ women and never allow them to influence decisions,†Matembe said, addressing women from Lango and Acholi sub-regions in April 2009.
“I did my best when I was a minister. But how was I paid back? I still think that although women have been given places of power, they do not have real power to change things.â€
“These ministers are captured; their hands are handcuffed. The ministers today are working for survival and I pity them,†in a clash with Hon. Nsaba Buturo in March, 2009.
“A party looking for women cannot skip my name because I am a political heavyweight. If I was in FDC I would be having a leadership position because Beti Kamya, Alice Alaso and Salaamu Musumba were born yesterday,†in 2006, denying allegations she is a member of FDC.
“I do not see any justifiable reason or moral value as to why the State should sponsor an ex Vice-President and her family to the tune of sh2.5b in a five-year period.
Where does Kazibwe get the guts to seek all those funds,†she asked, lambasting the shs2.5b Kazibwe sponsorship to Harvard in October 2004
“Generally I am a woman activist. We call ourselves activists, but in the real sense, we are feminists. But we fear using the word for the connotation it brings in our continent.
Because people think when you are a feminist you are a rebel who is busy breaking down marriages and destroying families.†During the California Women’s Agenda in USA in 2001
â€The girl’s parents look at her as a source of income and demand too much from the groom’s side. Once the groom has paid so much, he starts looking at his wife as property,†she said while speaking at Makerere University during a public discourse on bride price in 2004
“There is a public outcry that the age of consent be reduced from 18, but men
are now raping young girls of less than 10,â€
Matembe said when she went to block a beauty contest in Nateete, a Kampala suburb, after seeing a photo of a half-naked under-age participant in an advert.
“The party I belong to is that of the Ministry of Jesus. We (women) should have a common agenda when it comes to issues affecting us,†she said in June 2009, in Bushenyi.
“Those who said I have betrayed Museveni should think twice. I support Museveni, but I do not support him in matters that mislead the country.
Museveni worked for Uganda, I also did a lot for Uganda, but my major concern was that the NRM wanted to ‘pocket’ women and never allow them to influence decisions,†Matembe said, addressing women from Lango and Acholi sub-regions in April 2009.
“I did my best when I was a minister. But how was I paid back? I still think that although women have been given places of power, they do not have real power to change things.â€
“These ministers are captured; their hands are handcuffed. The ministers today are working for survival and I pity them,†in a clash with Hon. Nsaba Buturo in March, 2009.
“A party looking for women cannot skip my name because I am a political heavyweight. If I was in FDC I would be having a leadership position because Beti Kamya, Alice Alaso and Salaamu Musumba were born yesterday,†in 2006, denying allegations she is a member of FDC.
“I do not see any justifiable reason or moral value as to why the State should sponsor an ex Vice-President and her family to the tune of sh2.5b in a five-year period.
Where does Kazibwe get the guts to seek all those funds,†she asked, lambasting the shs2.5b Kazibwe sponsorship to Harvard in October 2004
“Generally I am a woman activist. We call ourselves activists, but in the real sense, we are feminists. But we fear using the word for the connotation it brings in our continent.
Because people think when you are a feminist you are a rebel who is busy breaking down marriages and destroying families.†During the California Women’s Agenda in USA in 2001
â€The girl’s parents look at her as a source of income and demand too much from the groom’s side. Once the groom has paid so much, he starts looking at his wife as property,†she said while speaking at Makerere University during a public discourse on bride price in 2004
“There is a public outcry that the age of consent be reduced from 18, but men
are now raping young girls of less than 10,â€
Matembe said when she went to block a beauty contest in Nateete, a Kampala suburb, after seeing a photo of a half-naked under-age participant in an advert.