Education Minister Janet Museveni is dismayed that several Non-Governmental Organizations are disguising themselves as human rights defenders, but instead promote immorality among school-going children.
Mrs. Museveni hinted that there is a new global agenda to deliberately promote immorality, which is evidenced in the indecent entertainment performances openly exhibited before children.
She was presiding over the national campaign to address defilement, child marriage, teenage pregnancy and the promotion of positive parenting at Wanyange girls` School in Jinja yesterday where 2500 students from 37 secondary schools within Busoga sub-region attended.
She says that contraception and condom use which are largely promoted by a section of activists end up luring young girls into sexual immorality, without attaining maturity and comprehensive knowledge about how to protect their bodies.
Ms. Museveni adds that measures like contraception are only efficient in ending teenage pregnancies, but the victims are exposed to sexually transmitted infections, which in the long run interrupt their study schedules. Mrs. Museveni speaking…….
The UN Resident Coordinator, Susan Ngongi called upon the government to tighten legal mechanisms against perpetrators of teenage pregnancies and defilement, in a bid to tame the vice among girls. END