{"id":720633,"date":"2019-10-10T20:18:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/10\/uganda-announces-kill-the-gays-bill-meant-to-issue-death-penalty-for-homosexuals\/"},"modified":"2019-10-10T20:18:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:18:34","slug":"uganda-announces-kill-the-gays-bill-meant-to-issue-death-penalty-for-homosexuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/10\/uganda-announces-kill-the-gays-bill-meant-to-issue-death-penalty-for-homosexuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Announces &#8216;Kill The Gays&#8217; Bill Meant To Issue Death Penalty For Homosexuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_714330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-714330\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-714330\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5d9f439784eac.jpg\" alt=\"President\u00a0Yoweri Museveni\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-714330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President\u00a0Yoweri Museveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The reintroduction of a bill that would bring in the death penalty for homosexuals, has been announced by the Ugandan government.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Kill the Gays\u2019 bill was nullified 5 years ago due to it including the death penalty, but the government has now announced that theu will be reintroducing it within weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0How Homosexuality Started In Africa \u2013 Jidenna (Video)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simon Lokodo, the Ethics and Integrity Minister, via a statement said: \u2018Homosexuality is not natural to Ugandans, but there has been a massive recruitment by gay people in schools, and especially among the youth, where they are promoting the falsehood that people are born like that<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our current penal law is limited. It only criminalizes the act. We want it made clear that anyone who is even involved in promotion and recruitment has to be criminalized. Those that do grave acts will be given the death sentence.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He added that the bill which is supported by President Yoweri Museveni, \u00a0will be reintroduced in parliament in the coming weeks, and hopefully will be voted in before the year runs out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We have been talking to the MPs and we have mobilised them in big numbers,\u2019 said Lokodo. \u2018Many are supportive.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It is a concern,\u2019 he said. But we are ready. We don\u2019t like blackmailing. Much as we know that this is going to irritate our supporters in budget and governance, we can\u2019t just bend our heads and bow before people who want to impose a culture which is foreign to us.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Yoweri Museveni The reintroduction of a bill that would bring in the death penalty for homosexuals, has been announced by the Ugandan government. The \u2018Kill the Gays\u2019 bill was nullified 5 years ago due to it including the death penalty, but the government has now announced that theu will be reintroducing it within weeks. 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