A Ugandan student, Joaninne Nanyange, on Wednesday claimed that she was stopped from going to class because her skirt was “too short.”
The law student posted a picture of her outfit on Facebook saying she was barred from class because her knee-length skirt was “distracting to men and boys.”
Ms Nanyange said that on arriving at her law faculty she noticed there was policewoman at the door.
“The uniformed woman flagged me down and being the law abiding citizen that I am, I stopped,” She wrote on Facebook.
“She asked me to pull my skirt down to see how far down it could go. I burst into laughter. Her request didn’t make sense.”
Ms Nanyange said when she told the woman she couldn’t pull her skirt down any further she was told she could not enter campus.
“The other woman, ever with a very satisfied grin, told me I could not access the campus because my skirt was not long enough for LDC standards. I was shocked. Yes.
“Shocked. Seeing the bewilderment on my face, the two women laboured to explain. Apparently, skirts like mine attract the boys and men that we study with and bar them from concentrating. So they could not be allowed!!!!!!”
Narrating the encounter
“What I found most ridiculous was that my skirt really wasn’t that short for any standard, even legal profession standards,” she said during BBC programme World Have Your Say
“And secondly, the reason they gave me…it wasn’t about the fact that your profession requires you to have this length of skirt, it was about the fact that if you go with this length you’ll distract the men and boys.
“That is what I found most shocking and more infuriating.”