DP urges Govt to enact stringent laws against homosexuality

While addressing the media at the party’s head offices in Kampala, the vice-president of the party, Fred Dennis Mukasa Mbidde, said Uganda should join the 36 countries in the commonwealth which criminalised the practice.

He noted that Government should prioritise the future of Ugandan children which is now at stake as homosexuality promoters have set all their eyes on school-going children.

Mbidde demanded that Parliament resurrects the Anti-Homosexuality Bill and add articles including simulative conducts and activities relating to homosexuality such as dress code among the male youth.

He also said Parliament should include aggravated sexuality to criminalise individuals spreading HIV/AIDS through same-sex relationships among young people.

In 2013, Parliament passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into a law prohibiting same-sex marriages, however, in 2014 the Constitutional Court nullified the Act saying that it was passed by Members of Parliament without the requisite quorum and was thus illegal.

Parliament will on 1 March 2023 present a draft law that is among other things; meant to shield Ugandans from elements of homosexuality.

This was revealed by the Speaker of Parliament, Anita Annet Among, at the tail-end of the joint ecumenical thanksgiving service at Parliament on Tuesday morning.

Among stated that the House is set to tackle the escalating moral decay soiling Uganda as a country

She added that the promoters of homosexuality do not appreciate the values of Ugandans that they are destroying.

She said as an institution of Parliament that passes the laws, the focus will be on drafting an anti-gay law

During the same service convened under the theme “Let your light shine; rebuilding our Godly image,” Among demanded that leaders be exemplary by providing the required light to flush out darkness killing society.