At least 91 MPs had by yesterday evening signed a document in support of a drive to re-introduce the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014, which was nullified by the Constitutional Court last Friday, on grounds that Parliament passed it without the required quorum.
The court’s action removed the law from the country’s statute books in spite of protests from the State that the petitioners did not tender actual evidence to support their claim that there was no quorum when it was enacted.
Kawempe North MP Latif Sebaggala kicked off the collection of signatures yesterday afternoon, saying colleagues want Parliament to put on hold the handling of the ongoing Budget process and first ensure the re-passage of the anti-gay activity law when it resumes from the mini recess later this month.
When the Anti-Homosexuality Bill was tabled before Parliament in 2009, as a private member’s initiative by Ndorwa West MP David Bahati, it was condemned by the Western countries as an affront to human rights.
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