Specioza Kazibwe Quotes

"The position is constitutional and not something that can be appointed or dismissed on a whim. I am still the Vice President, and I will be for a long time. I am still with you, and you better take note of that.

When I was Vice President, I told the president that this was impossible. So, we asked some headteachers and teachers from these 'Four schools' to take the same exams, and they failed. How could they have been teaching students who scored Four if they themselves couldn't pass?

I'm telling you this because I've been there, and perhaps I left because I'm one of the few smart ones. I was lacking the right company.

I don't care whether I said people's socks stink. They said this woman talks about nothing. It is something. Cleanliness is next to godliness. The devil is in the detail. Who doesn't know that men don't like to bath? It's a fact,"

The young and vibrant NRM government boasted that any girl or woman in Uganda could become anything they wanted in the world.

Why should I stay with a man who beats me? I told him, 'How can you beat a vice president?'

I’m pleased, though somewhat surprised, by how many people are thinking and talking about these issues.

I’ve been accused of having an affair with the president, among other things. They claim I only have my job because I’m a woman. Men try to bully me the same way they bully their wives, but I won’t tolerate it. It's clear they can't imagine women serving any purpose beyond sex, but I make sure to remind them that we have brains too.

It is widely acknowledged that gender-based violence rates are high in Uganda. What concerns us even more is that the recognition of this issue as a problem is not very widespread.

Even male ministers and MPs have started approaching me to discuss the challenges they face in their homes.

I am deeply honored and excited to assume this new and challenging role at such a critical time in the fight against AIDS.

There is an excessive number of Distinction Ones, and I want to point out that it's not typical in statistics for every student in a school to receive Ones or Fours. If you find a school where all the students are getting Standard One, that’s an unusual situation. It suggests that someone is manipulating the results.

In the end, I felt sorry for those women," "Some even came to me for help. I didn't feel humiliated because by then, I had stopped feeling anything for my husband.

My hope is that others will find the courage to stand up against the violence that exists in so many of our homes, yet remains so rarely acknowledged.

As a matter of policy, we sometimes get caught up in one thing or another and allow the government to take the lead, thinking that the smartest people are in government. The truth is, most of the smartest people don’t go into government.