25. THAT I verily believe that bride price is incompatible with Art 33(6) of the Constitution which provides that “Laws, cultures, customs or traditions which are against the dignity, welfare or interest of women or which undermine their status are prohibited by this Constitution. 26. THAT keeping bride price in its present form has the effect of perpetuating inequality between the sexes as well as discrimination on the basis of sex and is a violation of the rights of women. 27. THAT bride price in its present form does not accord women full and equal dignity with men as required by the Constitution. 28. THAT bride price is a customary practice which is against the dignity, welfare or interest of women and undermines their status in as far as it maintains and entrenches inequality between men and women and discrimination on the basis of sex contrary to the Constitution. 29. THAT I swear this affidavit in support of a Petition for a declaration that the practice of bride price is unconstitutional and a violation of International Human Rights Conventions to which Uganda is a signatory. 30. THAT what is stated herein is true to the best of my knowledge.” There are on record several other affidavits substantiating the complaints raised in Atuki Turner’s affidavit. I will here summarise only a few examples:(a) Achieng Margaret got married to one Ocheri James. She failed to deliver for him a child. As a result she was constantly being assaulted as being useless because Ocheri had paid bride price of one cow and two goats for which she had given no value. She had to ran from the marriage when she perceived that the man was about to kill her. (b) Fulimeri Nyayuki and Solomon Oboth. Fulimera got married to Okumu Rechi when she was only 15 years. He paid one cow and two goats as bride price. When she failed to conceive, he started torturing her and she still has scars of her mistreatment inflicted with knives and pangas. She left him and after some years she got married Solomon Oboth. Since her parents had died, Okumu Rechi started demanding a refund of bride price from Solomon Oboth. He caused the arrest of Fulimera and Solomon who stayed in prison for a very long time till relatives assisted him to refund the one cow and two goats to the former husband of his wife. (c) Jagweri James. He got married to Akello Lillian in 1991 (cohabitation) and they got 3 children. She then died before he paid bride price. Her parents and relatives could not allow him to burry her for over one week till he agreed to pay three cows. He says that because of what happened, he was traumatised, stressed and dehumanized, he did not have the cows but he was forced to look for them even when his wife’s body was lying still unburied. 62