The minister for Gender, Labour and social development, Mr Frank Tumwebaze has slammed police and its sister agencies over mismanagement of gender-based violence (GBV) cases as domestic violence continues to take its toll on families.

Mr Tumwebaze who was addressing local government leaders and security operatives in Kabarole District in western Uganda told the forces not to only focus on enforcing curfew and other directives but pay keen attention to gender-based violence as well.

A tough-talking Tumwebaze asked one of the internal security organisation (ISO) operatives in the meeting to explain why their focus is only on Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group and not gender-based violence.

Why is your focus on only on ADF, you should be serious on gender-based violence.

We should make it political in that when one stands and has a case or background of gender-based violence, we don't vote for him."