Women’s empowerment flows from the barrel of a gun today

Surely, the women of Uganda cannot continue claiming to be marginalised, when they are taking over all the professions, including the toughest and riskiest of all, robbery in the city.

There are also deeply involved the traumatising spate of commuter taxi hijackings.

Many tired passengers leaving work in the evenings have not ended up at home, but naked and penniless in deserted suburban bush after their commuter minibuses have been hijacked.

Whenever some arrests are made of these taxi-hijackers, there is a woman at the centre.

Whoever wins the February 2011 elections should appoint a woman minister for security/internal affairs.

We really need someone who can understand how the minds of the top criminals work.