Husbands have abandoned them for side hens
Angry women under their self proclaimed group called “Association of Wives” have taken to the streets protesting against unfair treatment by their husbands. Close to fifteen women paraded at various roundabouts in the Central Business District of Kampala on Monday morning holding placards claiming their husbands have failed to provide, dumping them for side dishes.
The placards read; ‘Kameeza money should be increased’, ‘Wives also deserve trips to Dubai’, ’Side chics are spoiling our marriages,’ among others
The women allege that as the country is hit with inflation, their husbands have neglected increasing ‘Kameeza’ money for their upkeep and are instead furnishing side hens with trips to Dubai. They further claim that men are not fulfilling their conjugal rights and don’t care about their children.
Kameeza is a cash daily subsistence allowance that typical Ugandan husbands leave their women in the morning before they go to work.
Elizabeth Namwenge, the Spokesperson says they took to the streets to air out their grievances and advocate for their demands to be met.
“Our main reason is to advocate for increment of ‘Kameeza money’, that money they leave for upkeep, We want our husbands to take us for trips abroad like they do to their women, to show us a little care and love because side chics are taking away our husbands,” Namwenge says
Husbands have abandoned them for side hens
“Side chics have stolen our husbands, the men have abandoned us at home, you give birth to his children and he dumps you, he moves out of home for one week leaving only 20.000 shillings at home then spends millions traveling with side chics abroad,” another aggrieved member stated
“A man leaves for you only 10,000 shillings on the table for what purpose? Soap is 10.000 shillings now, sugar 4000 a kilogram,a child has to eat food and I have to buy charcoal. If there is no Kameeza money I don’t have appetite for my husband,Employment in Uganda is difficult, an informal job will only pay you 2000 shillings a day,”Annet complained
The women were later arrested and are currently being held at the Central Police Station in Kampala.
Agnes Asiimwe Konde, the Vice President for Program Development at Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, recently advised women to make use of Kameeza money to start small businesses.
Konde, who is also a board member at Stanbic Holdings tipped women to grow themselves from the money that their husbands leave for them if they get a vision for the money, commonly known as ez’akameeza.
