Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni came under fire Monday for saying he had not stepped into the kitchen since he got married, and that he believes that other men shouldn’t cook as well as it’s not a man’s role to do so.

“The head of the home never goes into the kitchen. It is now 45 years with Mama Janet, I have never stepped into the kitchen. That is how it should be,” he said on Sunday in a statement, as an example of how politicians and civil servants should stick to prescribed roles.

Oxfam’s International Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, hit back at the 74-year-old president on Twitter, saying she was “disappointed”.

“Cooking isn’t a woman’s job. It’s a life skill. All people – men and women should cook,” she wrote.

“When cooking, cleaning and doing other domestic chores are left to women, they are denied an equal chance to raise incomes or to be politically active.”

Beatrice Alaso from the opposition Forum For Democratic Change told AFP:

“Museveni has revealed to the world what he has always believed in: that women can never be the same as their male counterparts.”

Online news website Watchdog Uganda however defended Museveni’s comments as consistent with the country’s culture which sees men cooking as “taboo”, saying some ethnic groups in the country have a word referring to men who cook as a “transvestite or a man dressing and behaving like a woman so men shouldn’t cook.”

BY GISTMORE - http://gistmore.com/men-shouldnt-cook-uganda-president-yoweri-museveni

Really?

What should bachelors do?

Mama Janet let's not look at it from a feminist point of view. Let's instead celebrate 45 years of marriage between Mama Janet and Yow baba

I cook and don’t see any thing wrong doing it.

Feminist wouldn't like this

Fact is a man can choose to run his house how he pleases


Those monkeys mocking him, will happily marry him, if given the chance



My regards to mama janet lmao

Aiit

volatile topics can only bring more division and no conclusion. Show me the president who said this and i will tell you the feel of the country, the level of poverty.

pp802:
Really?

What should bachelors do?

Stay hungry of course or go and marry....
The African life. You just gotta love it.
Anyway, every mallam with his own kettle.

I enjoy cooking my meals as a guy and men should help in cooking if they can. But the woman should not take undue advantage and pin it on the man like it is his responsibility.

By the way...do you know that the best cooks on earth are MEN?


Almost all the top rated 5 star hotels have men as their chef and most food shows on tv are aired with men being behind the culinary.

Mr president wan shake table abi??

i no support d motion me wen no kon sabi cook wetin i gain.

ipob won't like dis

So my dad that loved cooking before he died was stupid abi?

Wether my husband cooks or not, e no concern me..; my hand no break...


Rubbish

Men shouldn't eat

Like Buhari , like Yoweri...

Two mad men who became president of their unfortunate countries by mistake

lazy men talk that wa

There are some men that cook more than women so i give kudos to them not this man thats blabbing rubbish to him a woman's life only end in the kitchen thats remind me of what the dullard said that his wife belong to the kitchen and za oza room.

This one na Maninist

Lizilicious:
So my dad that loved cooking before he died was stupid abi?

Wether my husband cooks or not, e no concern me..; my hand no break...


Rubbish

what are those two things on your chest? Are they pawpaws or watermelons?

he's right

annnikky:
There are some men that cook more than women so give kudos to them not this man thats blabbing rubbish to him a woman's life only end in the kitchen

are you coming?

pp802:
Really?

What should bachelors do?

Eat grass

what do you expect from ugandan?

that's his opinion and he is entitled to it..


as for me, I love cooking, I love cleaning, so any woman i marry must share that kitchen with me.... because I cannot come and allow all the cooking skills I have acquired over the years to just waste like that just because of marriage....


I Don dey sing am now incase my future wife is reading this.. na me and u get our kitchen O!!

pp802:
Really?
What should bachelors do?

Is Uganda a country?

I am cooking right now. Come and stop me.

So if hunger dey wire me, make I no cook?

Smh..

I cook. No time .