Museveni Says Nobody Will Move Uganda Over Its Anti-Gay Law

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, has told off the international community over its opposition to an anti-gay law signed into law this week.

Mr Museveni insisted the signing of the law was a done deal, defying calls to have it repealed.

The president after a meeting with members of his National Resistance Movement (NRM) party said the signing of the anti-homosexuality bill is finished and that nobody will move his administration.

United States President, Joe Biden criticised the law as a “tragic violation of universal human rights” and called for its repeal, adding that the US was considering sanctions.

The European Union and United Nation’s Chief Antonio Guterres have also condemned the law. Anyone convicted for gay sexual acts faces life imprisonment.

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Museveni told his party’s lawmakers that before signing the law that he had consulted widely to try to determine whether homosexuality was genetic and that he had been persuaded by experts that it was not and described it instead as “psychological disorientation.”

“The problem is that, yes, you are disoriented. You have got a problem to yourself. Now, don’t try to recruit others. If you try to recruit people into a disorientation, then we go for you. We punish you,” he said.

“But secondly, if you violently grab some children and you rape them and so on and so forth, we kill you. And that one I totally support, and I will support.”

The law also imposes a life sentence for same-sex intercourse and a 20-year sentence for promotion of homosexuality.

Firms including media and non-governmental organisations that knowingly promote LGBTQ activity will also incur harsh fines, the law says.