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The police director of social protection, James Ebintu, who was also in agreement with Asamo, argued that inserting this provision in the Anti-Homosexuality Bill will prevent the spread if the vice in prisons.
“We propose that the minister in-charge of prisons isolates people convicted of engaging in homosexuality in order to prevent the spread of the vice,” Asamo told the parliamentary committee that is scrutinising the Bill.
He added: “People in prisons are already vulnerable, they are not seeing their wives. So, if you place a person who has been convicted of engaging in homosexuality, they will definitely spread the vice. We thought it would be good if we consider an element of isolation of these people as we continue rehabilitation them.”
It should be noted that Police had earlier requested Government to build separate prisons for homosexuals to enable them implement the Anti-Homosexual Bill 2023 if it is passed.
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To avoid the influence of non-homosexuals and sexual harassment of homosexual suspects in cells and vice versa, Police said homosexual suspects should be kept in separate prisons from their heterosexual counterparts.
Bugiri Municipality Member of Parliament, Asuman Basalirwa, early this month tabled the Anti-Homosexual Bill which proposes the arrest of 10 years of imprisonment for people convicted of the vice.