Kampala — Almost two weeks after Bugangaizi East MP, Onesimas Twinamatsiko apologised in Parliament over utterances in support of men who beat their wives, at least a 25 civil society organisations are lobbying Speaker Rebecca Kadaga to suspend him.
Led by Ms Bonnie Kicoco, the executive director for Centre for Women in Governance, the women activists say, the MP should be suspended for at least five months to "act as a lesson" to men who violate rights of women and girls.
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