Students at Kampala International University have been warned to watch out for “homosexual recruitment groups” who have been described as people who disguise themselves as students from other institutions.
The Observer newspaper in Uganda has reported that the University’s Vice Chancellor, Dr Mouhammad Mpezamihigo,addressed newly enrolled students at the start of the academic year and gave a warning that homosexual groups preyed on those; “desperate for quick money and the unemployed”.
The Vice Chancellor was reportedly joined by an anti-homosexuality campaigner Emmanuel Matovu, who is said to have dropped his trousers to show he has to wear diapers due to his former homosexual activities.
The Vice Chancellor has said that too many students spend time looking for nightclubs during their first semester and it is the University’s responsibility to stop them falling into the wrong lifestyle.
Uganda’s anti-gay President President Yoweri Museveni has just been returned for a firth term in office. President Museveni gained over 60% of the vote in the February election, but his opponent Dr Abed Bwanika was under house arrest at the time of the poll.
Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda. In 2014 the government passed a ‘kill the gays’ law which order the death penalty for people caught having homosexual sex, a year later the law was deemed unconstitutional. Homosexuality can still attract a life imprisonment sentence.
Dr Bwanika, like most Ugandan politicians, has spoken out against homosexuality, in an interview the aspiring leader said there was no proof that people were born gay.
OIP Staff
