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Onesimus Twinamasiko, a Ugandan Member of Parliament has found himself in hot soup thanks to his rather stupid comments. The legislator on Ugandan television channel NTV "as a man, you need to discipline your wife. "You need to touch her a bit, you tackle her, beat her somehow to really streamline her." His remarks have received massive criticism from netizens and women groups.
Seeing that more than one in five women aged 15-49 have experienced domestic or sexual violence in Uganda, (government report published last year), most netizens could not understand why a member of parliament would encourage Gender Based Violence rather than condemn it.
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