Hon. Miria Matembe and Jolly Kyomugasho Mugisha lobby the Mayor of Mbarara District
Council to include women when filling administrative positions
Rutehenda B. Robert, Mayor, Mbarara District Council greets the delegation and provides an historic overview of governance in the district under the new democrary.
Helen Young, from the California delegation asks: How have so many changes in your country been made so quickly?
Mayor: We are improving so much because we had 30 years of stagnation. We wasted 30 years, and everybody knows that we wasted 30 years. Tanzania is way off. Kenya is way off. We are behind. So we are the most productive area in this region. We lacked one thing, the governance. But I think Uganda will again be the pearl of Africa, as it used to be.
It is very good to go to Uganda and see for yourselves (he tells the U.S. women) Because we have a lot of black stains. In the world, whenever you said "Uganda" they cried , "Amin." But now a Mayor has to be elected, has to go through the public scrutiny.
More on appointment of women to positions of administrative authority and responsibility.
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