Attorney General, DPP Oppose Anti-Homosexuality Bill

The Attorney General and the deputy director of Public prosecutions (DPP) have opposed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023.
While appearing before the parliamentary committee on legal affairs on March 18th, the Attorney General Kiryowa Kiwanuka said the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is a duplication of existing laws.
“Our criminalisation of homosexuality clause 9 of the new is a duplication since it is catered for in CAP 120 of the penal code,” he said.
The Attorney General said the penal code is supposed to be the main penal law of the county, adding that it is hard to detect, investigate, prosecute and sentence homosexuals since the act is done in private.
The deputy director of Public prosecutions James Odumbi was in agreement with the Attorney General.
However, officials from the Ministry of gender labour and social development supported the Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
Hellen Asamo (state Minister for disability affairs) and Rose Lilly Akello (state Minister for ethics and Intergrity) both agreed that it was important to have the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023.
These argued that the Bill, if passed, will protect the cherished cultural values of Uganda and protect children against the acts of sexual minority rights activists.
Abdul Katuntu told the committee that, though homosexuals do the act in private, crimes are not only committed against individuals but society.
President Museveni said Thursday that he needed a scientific opinion on homosexuality and that the subject would be discussed conclusively another time.
The parliamentary committee on legal affairs is currently scrutinising the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 that was spearhead by MP Asuman Basalirwa.
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