My view on Obama-Museven over the signing of homosexuality bill. It’s almost four years when I witnessed religious leaders in the Eastern region of Uganda denounce homosexuality during a demonstration held in Mbale district at Malukhu grounds where speaker after speaker bashed homosexuality on  April 24, 2010.

Running a story titled Mbale Pastors in anti-gay demo in the then Weekly Observer which to date is The Observer attracted both local and international attention. However, the debate in Uganda has been ongoing and still is. Will President Museveni bore down to international pressure or will he seek to protect and defend the Sovereignty of Uganda.

Late last year in December, Uganda’s Parliament passed the anti-homosexuality bill that seeks to punish same sex marriages. Once Uganda’s first citizen Museveni assents to the bill; it will become a law that everyone shall have to abide by.

At the just concluded NRM legislators retreat at Kyankwazi, the son of late Mzee Kaguta promised legislators that he would assent to the bill and make it Law in Uganda after getting scientific proof from eleven scientists whose findings affirmed that homosexuality is not genetic but rather an abnormal behavior which must be dealt with using punitive measures.

The question of the day remains unanswered as to why the West has from time and again threatened serious sanctions against any country that violates the rights of another. Indeed it’s a choice to marry or to remain a celibate. Will Uganda follow the path of Russia and Nigeria that have banned the act of homosexuality or shall we wait for President Museveni to be re-elected in 2016 so as to assent to the Bill that not only bans homosexuality but rather breeds room for his grandsons to always refer to him as one who preserved his own culture and defended the Sovereignty of Uganda.

“As we have conveyed to President Museveni, enacting this legislation will complicate our valued relationship with Uganda,” Mr. Obama said in his statement quoted by The New York Times. What is this valued relationship Uganda has with America that Museveni must up hold at the expense of our traditional cultures.

Whatever it is Mr. Obama a promoter of democratic rule and values should show respect to the works of Uganda’s democratic institution of the Parliament which consists of democratically elected representatives of the people who have been entrusted with the right to decide what is best for Uganda.

And if the Anti-Homosexuality Bill is what the Ugandans wish and pray for then Mr. Obama should mind American business and back off from infringing on the independence of Uganda. Uganda’s Museveni must reply Obama’s plea with an immediate yes that pass across message that yes, Uganda is independent and not a colonial state of the USA whose ideologies and cultures differ from the African perspective.

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Interestingly different schools have defined democracy differently. Though Hitler describes it as the rule of the stupid, I wish to restrain to the common understanding of majority over the minority. Though a few members of the Ninth Parliament objected to the bill, the Majority assented to it. But Obama’s West has increasingly pressured countries to respect rights of the minorities an idea I concur with wholesomely with no single objection only if the Magna Carta for all humanity is respected.

The Magna Carta which is the cornerstone of today’s so much emphasized Universal declaration of Human rights highlighted universality, indivisibility and the interrelationship of all human rights reinforcing the idea that human rights, civil, cultural, economic, political and social should be taken in their totality and not disassociated from one another as clearly described on United Nations’ site (http://www.un.org/rights/50/carta.htm).

Mr. Obama should enlighten us on whether the said right of the minority is indeed in unison with our African culture that must never be disassociated from the definition of human rights for universality. Mr. Obama’s West should further educate us more on where the said gay right is indeed a right or rather an abuse of a right. Its inalienability remains baffling to many.

For a right to be inalienable simply means its absolute, unchallengeable, indisputable, undeniable, and incontrovertible among different definitions. In line with Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe who said if dogs can have sex between a male and a female then who are we not to think better than dogs that we train how to spy. The unanswered question is to whether man has lost his conscious.

To date the issue of anti-homosexual bills has captured the attention of the West that has from time immemorial threatened sanctions against countries that violate rights of the minority. In raising the issue of human rights and continuously threatening countries that pass anti-homosexual laws.

If the celebrated universal human rights, a subject which the West has patronized on to stop anti-gay campaigns in countries that see the act as un-African and one that is not part of the cultural heritage, then the very West should remember that its unwise to eat your bread and claim it back. They have taught us democracy, explained and initiated us into having human rights, given us an education that teaches us to preserve our own traditions but at the same time wish to see us violate our cultures to take on cultural indoctrination.

From the westernized education that I have been exposed too, I have learnt that usually a good leader is one who leaders by example. However, to the varying leaders world over that have called on the need to respect the said right of the minorities are the very persons who at the end of the day retire to their homes in the company of their wives and children. Richard Branson a British Billionaire and tycoon who called on the world to boycott tourism in Uganda married twice and has three children; Holly Branson, Clare Sarah Branson and Sam Branson.Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird a renowned outspoken advocate for gay rights has little known about his family a fact he seems to be hiding from the public. He is a son to Marianne Collins and Gerald Baird. The USA’s President Barack Hussein Obama is husband to Michelle Obama and father Natasha Obama and Malia Ann Obama. With due respect Mr. Obama and the West, it would be wise if African issues are left to the Africans as American issues are never discussed in the corridors of Africa.

In a chat with a Nigerian friend who seemed disappointed with the rate at which Uganda was taking long to put into law the anti-gay bill asked why the West has suffocated African countries with issues that are irrelevant other than forging a way on how poverty, disease and ignorance can be ended. He said, “Juma, do you think President Obama can allow his daughters to be lesbians. Besides he has a family; his wife solicited support for him in the recent USA elections, his daughters have always been an issue he talks about always. Why doesn’t he wish the same for others? Why is he suffocating Africa, supposing his African linage never existed would he be a president who has forgotten the hand that fed him? Juma answer me. The many questions forced me to ask much more than he could but rather reflect on history.

From the days of colonialism to date’s Neo-colonialism Africa remains a laboratory where tests are carried out as the West remains the center of the Knowledgeable whose duty is to ensure that experiments are successfully carried out. Religiously and culturally the issue of same sex marriage is not permissible, however, others could argue that it’s the very West that taught us religion but I wish to remind us that the West did not teach us our cultural values or introduce us to understanding our cultures before we were enslaved to colonialism.

In the circles of history, it’s the study of the past and the present to determine the future. I wish to derail on the study of the past with Lord Macaulay’s address to British Parliament on February 2, 1835 in which he said, “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high Moral values, people of such caliber, that I do not think we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose their self-esteem, their native culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation”.

Mr. Museveni for a long time now, many Ugandans have been taken up by your Visionary ideology. Will you let go of our own cultures and bore down to Westernized pressures which aim at destroying our cultures. Take note that Lord Macaulay’s address to British Parliament clearly shows how the West has used foreign aid to disfranchise Africans. Its time you answered their pleas in respect to African beliefs, cultures and indoctrination with a bold YES. Sign the bill into Law.

For God and My Country

  Homosexuality bill, in my view, Juma Kasadha