Museveni summons NRM-MPs over Anti-Homosexuality bill

By Francis Lubega

28^th March 2023

The Government Chief Whip Hamson Obua has urgently summoned the National Resistance Movement -NRM Parliamentary Caucus to discuss on many issues including the recently passed Anti- Homosexuality bill.

This is in a letter issued by Obua dated March 24^th 2023 copied to all NRM top bosses.

The meeting will be held in the conference hall at the Office of the President and it is likely to be addressed by the NRM chairperson also the President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni.

It is alleged that the president intends to use this meeting as one of his consultation processes of signing on to the Anti Homosexuality bill 2023 as per his promise made during a Parliamentary address early this month at Kololo airstrip.

Notably, Uganda first passed the Anti-Homosexuality law on December 20, 2013, which was tabled by the Ndorwa East Member of Parliament, David Bahati.

This particular law provided a life sentence and the death penalty for offenders.

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni signed the Act into law on 24 February 2014 but it was later annulled by the Constitutional Court on grounds that it was passed without the requisite quorum in the House.

At the time, several donors in countries like Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the USA suspended aid to Uganda.