A Rwandan pastor, Nicolas Niyibikora, is currently facing attacks for saying that ‘women are out of God’s favour’ during a radio broadcast.
He added that it was impossible to find anything good in any woman.
Women’s rights group, Pro-Femmes Twese Hamwe, complained to the Rwanda Media Commission, which is set to meet to discuss the issue next week.
Executive secretary, Emmanuel Mugisha, said it was likely the radio station will have to explain itself.
The Seventh Day Adventist preacher, Niyibikora, told listeners “Women are out of God’s favour” during a broadcast, warning “there is nothing good you can find in women.
“If you’ve read the Bible, who brought the sin into the world?” he asked listeners, adding: “It was not a man.”
The sermon has angered rights groups who stated that such words “can bring hatred and conflict among Rwandans if nothing is urgently done about it.”
The Seventh Day Adventists in Rwanda have made efforts to distance themselves from Niyibikora, stating that he was expelled from the church some five years ago.
But chairperson Jeanne d’arc Kanakuze of the pro-women group said the comments were discriminatory and could incite hate against women.
“Apart from being contradictory to the laws of our country starting with the Constitution, the sermon is also at odds with international principles against discrimination and undermining human beings,” Kanakuze said.
They are demanding that the pastor and station must be made to publicly apologise to all Rwandans and to women in particular.
The pastor and the management of the station will thus have to appear before the regulator to explain the incident, executive secretary of the RMC confirmed.
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