By Our Reporter
5th July 2023
The Attorney General has asked the Constitutional Court to dismiss three petitions challenging the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023 on grounds that they were filed in bad faith.
According to the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka, the petitions are not only brought in bad faith but were filed with intentions to destroy and overthrow the Constitutional social order by seeking court orders for the protection of an unconstitutional and illegal act of homosexuality.
Kiryowa says the three petitions were all misconceived and devoid of any merit and during the hearing, he will put the petitioners on strict proof regarding their allegation.
The evidence before Court shows that on February 28th, 2023 Parliament granted Bugiri Municipality Member of Parliament Asuman Basalirwa leave to introduce a Private Members Bill titled the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 which was gazetted on March 3rd, 2023 in the Gazette Supplementary number three of 2023.
It was later assented to by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in May 2023 thereby coming into force as a law.
The Act among others imposes capital punishments for same-sex relations and also for engaging children below 18 years in homosexuality.
After the President assented to the bill, the Anti-Homosexuality Act was challenged before the courts of laws by activists, Makerere University senior lecturers, and transgender people in three different petitions by a combined total of 18 petitioners.
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