Chris Ocowun
5 January 2009
Kampala — PADER district chairman Peter Odok W'Ocheng has advised Acholi parents not to allow their daughters to get married to lousy and violent men.
He was opening a one-day family planning advocacy meeting on Friday for councillors at Pader town council hall. "Prepare children for marriage. Find more information about the person you want your child to marry. There are some boys who marry girls and then take them to their friend's huts to sleep on papyrus mats with bedbugs," he said.
"I will tell my daughters not to marry these lousy militant men. Let us help young couples to keep their marriages well," Odok added
He said there was domestic violence in the IDP camps in the north because women got married to poverty stricken drunkards.
"Children should keep themselves neat even when they are old. How can you be dirty and you expect a man to marry you?" he asked. Odok said marriage was natural and that people should only fill the world if resources are available.
Pader Woman MP, Franka Judith Akello said councillors, cultural and religious leaders should encourage people in the communities to practice child spacing so that they can have families that can be managed easily.
She said there was need for family planning services in all health facilities in the north.
Be the first to Write a Comment!
Copyright © 2009 New Vision. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here.
AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.
