Lokodo accuses rights activists of abetting immorality
Fr Simon Lokodo
KAMPALA. The Minister of Ethics and Integrity, Fr Simon Lokodo, has accused human rights activists of interfering with his work.
Fr Lokodo yesterday said whenever his team arrests immoral people, human rights groups storm his office to ask for their release.
“It is a painful fact that Uganda has lost its esteem as a God-fearing country because people have embraced with enthusiasm Western cultures that have a negative impact on our morals yet when I arrest immoral people, you talk about rights,” Fr Lokodo said. The minister was speaking at a sensitisation workshop on pornography yesterday in Kampala. He claimed rights activists have increased moral decadence.
“The other day I arrested a group of people having sex in Bakuli; people came to me and said I was violating human rights,” Fr Lokodo said.
He also announced that he had closed an NGO that was teaching underage children sex education.
“They were teaching children of four years how to use a condom, how to use pills when they grow up. Can you imagine, and you call those human rights?” he asked.
Mr Lokodo said a team had been established to monitor regular consumers of pornography to enable their arrest and prosecution.
Mr Stephen Langa, the Family Life Network executive director, said pornography is responsible for increasing rape.
“Most of those who rape two months old babies are porn addicts. It (porn) makes people act in a manner themselves can’t believe,” Mr Langa said.
