RUYIGI January 15th (ABP) – The governor of Ruyigi province, Mrs. Emerencienne Tabu calls on the women of her province to serve as models in all the positive values that they teach their children and society in general. Those women are recommended to fight and avoid sexual vagrancy, drunkenness and lack of respect towards their husbands.
That advice was issued on Thursday January 11, 2024, during a meeting with women leaders of the Butaganzwa commune.
That meeting is part of the awareness campaign, organized by the governor’s office for women throughout the province, with a view to instilling in them their crucial role in educating society through their children for a better future in Burundi.
In his speech, administrator Remy Ndarufatiye of Butaganzwa indicated that that meeting comes at the right time given that there are still, in his commune, cases of family conflicts which arise from irresponsible behavior on the part of spouses, namely drunkenness, sexual vagrancy, polyandry, polygamy. Those behaviors are especially evident in trading centers and other high-density towns, he emphasizes.
During the debates and discussions with the population, the governor of Ruyigi, Mrs. Tabu reminded all the women present that the role of women in Burundian society has always been and will always be of capital importance. She indeed underlined the fact that from birth every child is educated by his mother and the first steps are always taught to him by his mother who directs him towards discipline and his own responsibility towards society.
She further added that if the mother is not capable of self-discipline, it will certainly be difficult or even impossible for the child and Burundian citizen to self-determine and respond to his rights and duties before the law. She thus called on all women to always talk with their sisters and set development objectives in order to avoid idleness which is the mother of all forms of evil.
Mrs. Tabu also indicated that cooperatives are still relevant today and that even the partners who support in all sectors of the country’s life, require for the majority of times, to intervene with the people gathered in cooperatives and not isolated individuals.
In their interventions, some of those women leaders made proposals to the Burundian government that the law governing individuals and the family should be modified. They especially insisted on all the articles which allow men who live together to take a wife of their choice, to regularize their union. Most of those women leaders point to the fact that all men choose the youngest and even more beautiful women for marriage, thus leaving multitudes of children born to former companions in nameless misery.
They therefore ask for protection for those old women who are thus put on the street. Those leaders also spoke of certain women who, once they receive administrative responsibilities or quite simply when they notice that their finances are improving, become too insolent towards their husbands, even seeking extra-marital affairs and towards a multi sexual partnership.
They asked that there be exemplary sanctions against that type of women who go beyond the law even though they are supposed to serve as a good example to society. To all those concerns, Governor Tabu asked them to wait until the competent authorities can take appropriate measures.