By Editorial
The Mufti of Uganda, His Eminence Sheikh Shaban Ramathan Mubajje has asked President Museveni to urgently assent to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 into law.
He says the law is needed or else some Ugandans may resort to mob justice against homosexuals.
Mubajje made the calls while leading Eid-Al-Fitri prayers at the Old Kampala National Mosque at Old Kampala.
Sheikh Shaban Ramathan Mubajje expressed fear that Parliament may be swayed by what he described as Satan’s influence to reconsider its position on the Bill that awaits the president’s assent.
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Mufti’s fear comes hardly two day after President Museveni also the National Chairman of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) asked his party’s parliamentary caucus to allow him to return the Bill for reconsideration.
The President told the caucus meeting in Kololo that Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka indicated to him that the bill passed by Parliament in its current form criminalizes even those who voluntarily come out to have practiced homosexuality and need to be helped.
Museveni proposed a provision for amnesty for those who will have come out to be helped not to punish them to allow others not to fear to come out. END.