Fight homosexuality, Kadaga tells youth

Speaker Rebecca Kadaga (2nd Left) cuts a cake with youth in Kamuli District on Thursday. PHOTO BY SAM CALEB OPIO

Kamuli- The Speaker of Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, has challenged youth leaders to fight homosexuality that has crept into schools.

Ms Kadaga said the youth are soft targets for homosexuals and pro-gay lobbyists from the Western world using scholarships and donor organisations to spread the vice and lure young people into it.

“We must stand against homosexuality and I enlist you as ground fighters against the vice among your fellow youth. Secure them from the vice with a vibrant programme,” Ms Kadaga said and warned the youth against being used as conduits.

Ms Kadaga was speaking at a party hosted by youth leaders at Joy Nume Hall in Kamuli District on Thursday to congratulate her upon her election to Parliament in the February elections.

She said there is credible information that some NGOs are recruiting children into homosexuality in Kamuli, asking security organs to investigate the issue and take appropriate action.

“It is disheartening that the social media reported that the Canadian court has legalised sex with dogs in addition to homosexuality. So security, act on these organisations luring innocent kids or we hold you as accomplices to the vice,” Ms Kadaga said.

She commended the youth leaders for their commitment and pledged to prioritise the youth programmes to empower them further.

The Speaker has previously had a diplomatic row with a Canadian minister over preserving rights of sexual minorities.

While in Canada in 2012, Ms Kadaga reminded the diplomat that Uganda was neither a colony nor protectorate of Canada and as such her sovereignty, societal and cultural norms were to be respected.