“To Hell With Your Homosexuality I don't even have a cat in the UK, You Won’t Scare An African Woman Like Me,” Speaker Among Slams UK Government Over The Sanction

 

The second African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on family, values, and Sovereignty has kicked on the shores of Lake Victoria in Entebbe.

The conference widely viewed as an avenue for African legislators to chart ways of fighting against homosexuality is also expected to continue the fight against some of the influence of the European Union through the ACP-EU treaty, which some countries in Africa have been reluctant to sign.

The theme of the conference this year is “Reaffirming our family and cultural values. The organizers say the conference this year is to tackle the pervasive form of cultural colonization, which they say, is accelerating at the international, regional, and sub-regional levels and local communities.

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The Speaker of Parliament, Annet Anita Among should have opened the conference but she delegated the Minister for general duties at the Office of Prime Minister, Justine Kasule Lumumba to resent her.

Anita Among in a speech said Uganda has been very deliberate on protecting African families, values, and cultures.She said the advancement of technology has become what she called a necessary evil. She urged that legislators must be steadfast in dealing with it is depressing effects like cyberbullying.The speaker then suggested that the government should fully implement the amended Misuse Amended Act. The Act was amended in 2022.

“We have allowed technology to run our families. We no longer sit and tell folk stories to our children. We sit in our living room including children on their phones,” she said.

She said that to emphasize Uganda’s commitment to protecting family and values, the parliament upheld its values and passed the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023.

“Even when the rest of the world was against us. This is because we are a Godly nation that respects the sanctity of marriage ordained between a man and woman for the intended purpose of procreation and companionship,” reads Among’s speech.

Anita Among has just been sanctioned by the UK government over alleged stealing or diverting iron sheets meant for poor people in Karamoja to herself. Former Ministers Agnes Nandutu and Goretti were also sanctioned meaning that they cannot travel to UK and that if they have assets in that country, they can not access them.

So, Anita Among told the conference that they have witnessed Western countries impose sanctions including threatening and withdrawing funding from countries that resisted their cultural colonization. And Uganda has been a victim of such.

“These Europeans should not take advantage of our poverty to exploit and colonise us again. We should not take their sugar-coated grants. If they threaten our independence and erode our cultural norms,” said Among.

The conference is being attended by legislators from some countries in Africa including Ghana, Botswana Eswatini, Malawi, and Uganda.Among the Uganda MPS who spoke at the conference is David Bahati who also chairs the Uganda Parliament’s prayer breakfast.