A gold medal for Ugandan women

It's Women's Day today and there's no better time than this to celebrate our women. Africa has produced productive women leaders but ours in Uganda outclass them all. How like a beacon in the night they shone in the just-concluded elections! Not just those who contested and won, even those who worked behind the scenes to make the electoral process generally successful.

KCCA E.D. Jennifer Musisi is doing a stellar job

It's not easy being a woman leader in a patriarchal society but this has not slowed down our women. Whenever Deputy Police Spokesperson Polly Namaye came on television to defend police actions and advise on how to conduct ourselves during the elections, I admired her.  In one interview, she fielded tough questions from Emmanuel Mutaizibwa of NTV as he pushed her to concede that the police were reckless with the opposition but she maintained her cool. Her guts and articulation reminded me of another courageous lady, former Police Spokesperson Judith Nabakooba who's the newly-elected woman MP for Mityana District. 

I also admired Josephine Mayanja-Nkangi who was spokesperson of the Go Forward team. Hon. Amama Mbabazi is a shrewd and sophisticated politician, the fact that he chose her testifies colourfully about her abilities. Then there's Uganda Law Society president Ruth Sebatindira and Anti-Corruption Coalition iron lady Cissy Kagaba - two women that have not brooked about the electoral injustices. 

When renown televangelist, motivational writer and speaker Dr Myles Munroe visited Uganda in 2013, he said president Museveni's successor will be a woman. The more I look at women like Winnie Byanyima,  Jennifer Musisi, Maria Kiwanuka, Julia Sebutinde, Rebecca Kadaga, Janet Museveni and Rev. Joy Kwesiga to mention a few, the more I pray his prophecy comes true. 

Uganda has gone through a lot at the hands of military rulers, yet we are not short of women of strength, wisdom and action to cradle us in their motherly arms and take this nation to another level. Come 2021, let's take one of these priceless women of ours to State House. 

Happy Women's Day.