By Reuben Olita
Busia Women Representative Hon. Catherine Omanyo has decried injustices some men administer against their wives, calling for an end to such brutal acts.
Hon Omanyo said injustices against women in marriages and in various offices make women persevere and unable to disclose their plight in public because they prefer to remain silent.
“Instead of disclosing their plight in public, such women opt for divine intervention hoping to see another day as long as they are okay. I urge men to take into consideration that women are human beings. They have feelings, and they deserve to be loved and praised,”she said.
Omanyo added:” Don’t discriminate against women and abuse them like donkeys. You will find them one day they have passed on after developing depression.”
” The only solution is to injustices including indiscriminate killings, torture and calling them names which are inhuman and take her like doormat,” she stated.
The women Rep said women have to their rights as enshrined in the constitution, noting that if empowered, they are not a threat. She noted that women are not competing men but complimenting them, thus the need not to discriminate them.
Ms. Omanyo said there is a need to work as a team and give both genders equal opportunities while discharging their duties. She also urged the government to put mechanisms to stop injustices against women.
Marital captivity is a common phenomenon where women are unable to terminate their marriages owing to one reason or another.
This means that even though the courts can dissolve their civil marriage, women are forced to remain in their marriages under their religious laws or under the civil family law of their country of origin.
And then there comes a point when the suffering becomes too much. The moment when they say, ‘enough is enough; I want and need a divorce’.
