The days the suspects in John Bosco Ariong’s death stayed in Luzira Upper Prison looked shorter than those I spent with Dr. Col. Kiiza Besigye in Nakasongola Prison because from day one prison official in Nakasongola switched off the electricity and Water.

We would spend the nights on the watch therefore not sleep because we would hear people moving around our ward. We were not allowed to interact with other inmates in Nakasongola prison.

In Luzira prison, there was no space for sleeping because of the over congestion, there were no drugs in Luzra prison ” hospital’’, homosexuality because of sex starvation is rampant and poverty.

While were in Luzira, we would be locked in at 4:00PM which was too much for me.  Poison scare was all over. What surprised me was the number of PGB boys in jail charged with deserting and robbery.

You would rub shoulders with former Arua Municipality MP Akbar Godi, LRA’s Koyelo, Kamdulu, ADF’s Benz, WBS’s TV presenter of the Oldies show, Kaka who was remanded over defilement many high profile criminals. The most popular case at Luzira prison is defilement where one is sentenced for not less than 20 years.  Many people are convicted innocently because they do not have lawyers. You find some one at Luzira Prison with a sentence of up to 310 years. Most of the people at Luzira prison who are serving long sentences are politicians like former MP Godi who were opposing president Museveni’s leadership.

Harod Kaija

Former inmate at Luzira prison

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Nevertheless, as a human rights organisation, FIDA is strongly opposed to the proposed anti homosexuality bill. In the first instance, human rights are in born and belong to all individuals equally without requiring any permission for their enjoyment. Human rights are also not conferred    by the state or by any other institution, organisation or person.

According to the press release FIDA Uganda has issued in Kampala today, it says that the proposed anti homosexuality bill is unnecessary and redundant. It says that the current criminal law for example the penal code act amendment of 2007 fully protects all children, whether boys or girls from sexual exploitation by any person who may abuse his or her position of power or authority. The penal code act already provides for the offences outlined in the homosexuality bill.

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Otafiire yesterday told a press conference in Kampala that the government should go slow on enacting a law that out laws homosexuality and lesbianism.

The minister says that he is aware that homosexuality is satanic, demonic, immoral and ungodly but enacting anti homosexual law would be difficult to implement.

Otafiire who is a lawyer told the press that even if the law against homosexuality is in place to prove in Court that a person is a homosexual is difficult. So he asked the religious leaders and traditional leaders and moralists not to develop pressure over the vice and leave the matter to God who will judge homosexuals on the judgment day.

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Otafiire yesterday told a press conference in Kampala that the government should go slow on enacting a law that out laws homosexuality and lesbianism.

The minister says that he is aware that homosexuality is satanic, demonic, immoral and ungodly but enacting anti homosexual law would be difficult to implement.

Otafiire who is a lawyer told the press that even if the law against homosexuality is in place to prove in Court that a person is a homosexual is difficult. So he asked the religious leaders and traditional leaders and moralists not to develop pressure over the vice and leave the matter to God who will judge homosexuals on the judgment day.

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Recently Cameroon threatened to suspend aid to countries like Uganda that don’t respect gays. However Ugandan MPs have told Cameroon to keep quiet as Uganda is not like England where ‘immoral’ people are accepted.

The Ugandan MP representing Ndorwa West, David Bahati says that Uganda will not bend down to Cameroon’s threats, saying Uganda can operate without aids from some countries.

MP Bahati is the one who recently drafted the Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009.” The bill criminalizes gay rights.

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Recently Cameroon threatened to suspend aid to countries like Uganda that don’t respect gays. However Ugandan MPs have jumped into the queue and told Cameroon to keep quiet as Uganda is not like England where ‘immoral’ people are accepted.

The Ugandan MP representing Ndorwa West, David Bahati says that Uganda will not bend down to Cameroon’s threats, saying Uganda can operate without aids from some countries.

MP Bahati is the one who recently drafted the Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009.” The bill criminalizes gay rights.

By James Okello

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