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Labour Union Staff Wanted by Ugandan Authorities to Answer Homosexuality Charges

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Ugandan police on Monday announced the arrest of 4 people for allegedly engaging in same-sex activity,  months after the introduction of draconian anti-gay legislation sparked international outrage.

The law considered one of the harshest of its kind in the world contains provisions making “aggravated homosexuality” a potentially capital offence and penalties for consensual same-sex relations of up to life in prison.

A police spokesperson Fred Enanga told this news website that the authorities have arrested four people all women at a massage parlor in jinja town the  eastern District of  on Saturday.

The police operation was carried out following a tip-off by the Uganda Parliamentary Speaker’s Security team which was ordered to arrest one Nannozi Anita a resident of Kitende-Kitovu in Wakiso a Kampala suburb and others.

Nannozi, a Trade Union employee allegedly seduced Speaker Annet Anita Among’s young Sister names withheld into Homosexual acts the vice which is prohibited in the laws of Uganda.

According to insiders the two became close during the time Nannozi was training the Speaker’s sister audio and video editing and TV production in one of the prominent Television studios in Kampala.

“We are still on a hunt to arrest Nannozi and a group because what they are doing is not allowed in this country, The law has been passed and signed by the president its now our cardinal role to put it into action” Enanga added.

The United Nations, foreign governments including the United States, and global rights groups condemned the new legislation, which was signed into law in May last year.

The World Bank announced it was suspending new loans to the East African nation, saying the law “fundamentally contradicts” the values espoused by the US-based lender.

But the government has remained defiant and the legislation has broad support in the conservative, predominantly Christian country, where lawmakers have defended the measures as a necessary bulwark against perceived Western immorality.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni accused the World Bank of using money to try to “coerce” the government to drop the controversial legislation

 

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