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Author: Osoro P.J. Nyawangah
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The treatment one Magdalena Ndilla (69) got from Magu district administration is an evident story of the stern picture. Herself a widow resident of Yitwimila village Mwanza region is a survivor of incorrect myths assault. In 1996 her assaulter stormed her room at right mutilated her with a panga six times. After six months' treatment in Magu and Bugando hospitals respectively, she survived with palm less right hand, scars on both shoulders, left hand and two on the head (one penetrated right damaging her left eye). A sad side of the story is that even though she and her daughter saw and know her assaulter, the man roams the village freely since then.
Since we live in the corrupt community, neither government nor the police had come to her assistance. The district commissioner Elias Maarugu in an interview with this correspondent agreed that she has not been given legal assistance defending the police negligence that it was the duty of the claimant to write statement to the Police!
I am not a lawyer myself, but whose duty is to take statements of assaulter and accident victims in hospitals and thereafter?
While the world is fighting to empower women as key to achieving the millennium development goals, the government and law enforcers should play their role effectively for the sake of community's welfare.
The legal and social exclusion and their resultant gender division of labour are product of the patriarchal power relations. These and others like low education, financial instability, and lack of access to strategic resources like land, immovable property etc. are factors that constrain growth of women's ( Next Page )
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