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The government of Uganda is not planning to appeal Monday’s court ruling that ordered the state to respect rights of homosexuals in Uganda.
The Court ruling by Justice Stella Arac also ordered the government to pay damages of 13million shillings to Evon Oyo and Victor Mukasa, both members of the Coalition of Gay Rights who petitioned the court after being roughed up and beaten by police in Kampala on suspicion that they were having a same sex relationship.
The Minister of Ethics and Integrity, Dr. James Nsaba Buturo who has been vowing on ensuring the hardest whip is used to discourage homosexuals in Uganda yesterday said the government was disappointed by the ruling but will not appeal.
He says that although the country’s penal Code clearly outlaws homosexuality, the country’s laws are inadequate to ensure a conviction of people engaged in same sex relationships, commonly referred to as gays or homosexuals.
Dr. Buturo said the current laws do not give the state a chance to investigate and get the truth out of people suspected of engaging in same sex relationships. He says with the constitution currently guarantying rights of every citizen to privacy and freedom from torture, it would require the state to catch people having same sex activities in a public place in order for the state to be able to present a successful case to courts of law.
Dr. Buturo said all sexual activities are carried out privately by two people and the state will be unable to produce evidence of same sex relationships against suspects.
The minister did not say what this means for the country and the government currently extremely opposed to gay relationships.
He instead said the government of Uganda can never allow “the madness” of same sex marriages to be legal in Uganda as some countries like the US and South Africa have done. Dr. Buturo said the government will continue sensitizing people against homosexual behaviors saying they are foreign and against human nature.
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