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

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.

I decided to speak out about my own experience of abuse for the sake of children. "I didn’t want my daughters to grow up witnessing what men are capable of, and I didn’t want my sons to believe that it’s acceptable for men to treat women that way."

People often believed my life was perfect—I had a husband, a successful career, financial stability, and my children were excelling in school and university. But behind that image, I was deeply unhappy in my marriage due to the abuse. I reached a point where I could no longer live the life others expected of me. I chose to break my silence and speak out about the reality of what I was going through.