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Woman starts petition to have Miss Curvy contest cancelled

Ethics and Integrity State Minister, Fr. Simon Lokodo has condemned a campaign by his cabinet colleague, State Minister for Tourism, Godffery Kiwanda of using curvy women to promote tourism.
Minister Kiwanda under his slogan Tulambule-Uganda launched the campaign targeting both local and foreign tourists to visit Uganda and among others view the curvy and bummy women.

Kiwanda Unveiled the project yesterday in Kampala where he said a beauty pageant dubbed ‘Miss Curvy Uganda’ has been launche
d to select sexy curvy women and the finalists will be selected in June.

However, Lokodo  says the campaign is false and shouldn’t have been a cabinet minister promoting such a project.

Meanwhile, a Ugandan woman has started a petition to have the Miss Curvy Uganda contest cancelled. The initiative unveiled in Kampala yesterday by the State minister for Tourism, Godfrey Kiwanda adds curvy and sexy Ugandan women to the list of tourism products to attract tourists.

It has however been met with backlash especially among women who say that the contest is demeaning to women as it objectifies their bodies as sex objects.

The unnamed woman demands that the contest is taken down and that Minister Kiwanda offers a public apology for coming up with such an initiative, but Kiwanda says the campaign is about appreciating what we are.


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