IRCU demands for re-tabling of Anti- Homosexuality Bill in parliament

By Ben Musanje

15^th Feb 2023

The Inter Religious Council of Uganda-IRCU believes that there is a need for the government to re-introduce the Anti-Homosexuality Bill into parliament in the efforts of fighting the vice in the country.

Speaking before the media in a joint press conference at the IRCU headquarters in Mengo, the Mufti of Uganda Sheikh Shaban Ramathan Mubaje says that the availability of this law will identify Uganda’s position on lesbianism, gay, bisexual and transgender -LGBT in the world.

In August 2014, the Constitutional Court in Kampala nullified the anti homosexuality Act on grounds that the same was passed by Parliament without the required quorum and that then Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga was warned by three people including Premier Amama Mbabazi.

The law, passed by the 11th Parliament and signed by President Yoweri Museveni in February 2014, prohibited promotion of homosexuality, prescribed for a life sentence of homosexuals and also obliged Ugandans to report gays to the authorities.

In the same press conference, the Chairperson of the Uganda Episcopal Conference, Bishop Joseph Antony Zziwa rallied the learning institutions in the country to restore religions in these schools in efforts of controlling same sex promotion tendencies.

Similarly, Archbishop of Church of Uganda and also the Chairman IRCU Council of Presidents, Most Rev. Dr. Stephen Kazimba Mugalu emphasizes that religion is not against the people involved in homosexuality but against the actual sin.