05/30/2023
KAMPALA, UGANDA: President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill after further improvements were made by the parliament to enforce tougher measures against people who pronounce themselves as gay in the East African country.
The restrictive anti-gay bill comes with tough punishments and fines for those convicted on promoting, recruiting and practicing homosexuality or lesbianism in Uganda.The Speaker of Parliament Rt Hon Anita Among Annet tweeted this morning confirming that the President assented to the tougher bill to become a new law leaning to Article 91(3) of the country’s constitution.
“President Museveni has executed his constitutional mandate as prescribed by Article 91 (3) (a) of the 1995 Constitution- and assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023,” parliament Speaker Anita Among confirmed on Monday.
“We have stood strong to defend the culture, values and aspirations of our people as per objectives 19 & 24 of our national objectives and directive principles of state policy,” she addedThe President has been under intense pressure from his western donors who have categorically stated that Uganda risks to lose on funding if the anti-homosexuality bill is signed into law.
Parliament modified the bill on May 2 after its initial March 21 draft sparked international condemnation for targeting people identifying as LGBQT.
Consequently, Museveni’s April 20 proposal for a review of the legislation aimed to improve the law to instead punish same-sex actors and its promoters amongst minors in the hardline socially conservative East African nation.
On Monday, Among tweeted “encouraging duty bearers under the law to execute the mandate bestowed upon them in the Anti-Homosexuality Act.”
“The people of Uganda have spoken, and it is your duty now to enforce the law in a fair, steadfast, and firm manner,” she added.The bill was first introduced in parliament and passed in December 2013, signed into law in February 2014.
Non many Ugandans have appreciated H.E Yoweli.K.Miseven for signing however western world communities are against it.
May Jah bless Presidents M7 and Whole country for standing firm.
For God And My Country.
