Today I want to celebrate a woman who is mostly misunderstood at home
and not given the credit that is due unto her name. She is an optimist
with a compassionate pulse for the disadvantaged. Through her initiatives,
so many HIV/Aids victims, widows and orphans have found hope.
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| Uganda's First Lady, Janet K. Museveni |
She also drums the drum of faithfulness in marriage and
runs campaigns urging the youths to pursue spiritual and moral values. It is at
one of such campaigns at the university a couple of years ago that I signed the
true-love-waits card promising to abstain from sex until I get married.
This woman taught her four children in the way that
they should walk and they have not departed from it despite having everything
that often tempts the children of the mighty and privileged to stray. Her
three beautiful daughters are stably married, and one of them is a pastor.
Her only son serves in a big position in the army and is known by his family as
"a man after God's own heart" because of his love for King David of the
Bible on whom God bestowed that label.
This no. 1 Ugandan woman is actually the solid rock
behind her husband. She brings some stability and sanity to the
table, without which he would have found the business of running
the country overwhelming. He testifies in the Foreword of her
biography how his born-again Christian wife wakes up to pray and read her
Bible at three o'clock every morning!
That's where she draws her strength and wisdom to
juggle her humongous responsibilities as wife, mother, grandmother, First
Lady, minister, M.P., not forgetting her duties in the humanitarian
organizations she founded. All this success yet she was born an ordinary
girl in an ordinary home like most of us.
Happy Women's Day, Janet Florence
Kainembabazi Kataaha Museveni. I pray you also succeed in convincing your husband
to hand over power peacefully.
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