The Kyabazinga who launched a sustainable fatherhood campaign "Abasadha nhe'mpango," meaning men are pillars, argues that families steered by intentional fathers raise well behaved children, who contribute to the country's development.
The Kyabazinga of Busoga, HRH Gabula Nadiope IV has rallied men across Busoga sub region to take center stage in the general wellbeing of their children.
While addressing clan leaders and royals from different chiefdoms of Busoga at the Busoga kingdom headquarters in Jinja city, the Kyabazinga explained that responsible fathers are key in stimulating functional families.
The UN agencies last year named the Kyabazinga of Busoga as a goodwill ambassador, who would inspire communities against teenage pregnancies.
In this, the Kyabazinga plays a role of rallying men and boys on their key role in fighting teenage pregnancies and ensuring that girls complete school without any interruptions resulting from early motherhood, among other related challenges.
The Kyabazinga is optimistic that such challenges can be easily dealt with through strengthening of the family institution from where all people carry their primary source of belonging and inspiration to lead better lives.
The Kyabazinga who launched a sustainable fatherhood campaign codenamed "Abasadha nhe'mpango," literally translated as men are the pillars, argues that all families steered by intentional fathers raise well behaved children, who contribute to the wider development of the country.
The Kyabazinga notes that men are born leaders, whose availability inspires children to lead meaningful lives, as they tend to adhere to the commanding voices of their fathers.
Kyabazinga says that these campaigns shall be rolled out in every home through the grassroots kingdom structures from the village to district levels.
The Kyabazinga says that these structures led by clan leaders will ride on the existing cultural norms, which resonate with the importance of responsible fatherhood.
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He further notes the complementary roles of wives in supporting fathers to instill acceptable values within their children for the posterity of both Busoga kingdom as a community and the entire country at large.
Meanwhile, Yudaya Babirye, the minister of Kyabazinga affairs says that firm families are often steered with the availability of both parents playing their roles to raise children into responsible adults.
Babirye has thus called upon men to play their roles through desisting from acts like cross-generational sex, which derail acceptable morals and kill the foundations on which families are established.
Babirye asserts that the clan leaders will be emphasizing ancient societal values, which depicted men as fathers and fountains of inspiration for all children in their communities, even without sharing any relational bonds with them.
Babirye notes that such practices if well supervised will raise more fathers in the grassroots communities, who are more mindful about sustainability rather than giving room for what she termed as lustful acts of indulging in cross-generational sex.
