The debate of gay people in most African countries has been escalating for a period of time now. Do you support the marriage of same sexuality?
This topic has been avoided by many people. It is only discussed under low tones, with the people who subscribe to same gender sexuality now coming out publicly.
Kenya, the President said he cannot legalize such a bill. Ezekiel Mutua has also been on the watch, remember the banning of “Rafiki movie?”
That was the longest arm of the law.
The regional governor of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, has vowed to arrest people suspected of being gay by next week in an escalating crackdown on LGBT communities in the East African nation.
“I have received reports that there are so many homosexuals in our city, and these homosexuals, are advertising and selling their services on the internet,” said the official, Paul Makonda.
“Therefore, I am announcing this to every citizen of Dar es Salaam. If you know any gays … report them to me,” he told reporters in Swahili in a video from a Monday news conference that has emerged on social media.
Makonda’s rhetoric echoes statements by other government officials about Tanzania’s LGBT community, who face increasing animosity from the country’s authorities.
LGBT people face a 30-year jail sentence under Tanzania law, mirroring severe penalties for same-sex relationships across many African countries.
Homosexual acts are punishable by the death penalty in Mauritania, Sudan, and Somalia and the northern part of Nigeria.
n 2016, Tanzania’s government drew international criticism after targeting LGBT groups in the country.
Amnesty International said the government threatened to deport and prosecute gay rights activists. It alleged some were even subjected to anal examinations.
The country’s health ministry suspended HIV/AIDS services last year in 40 clinics it accused of promoting homosexuality.
Hamisi Kigwangalla, Tanzania’s minister for natural resources and tourism, said in a Twitter post Tuesday that homosexual acts were “unnatural” and “ungodly.”
“I have done a lot of reading on this matter … from a scientific/medical side. I can strongly conclude that ‘no single argument for LGBTI has scientific proof’. It is simply ‘unnatural’ and ‘unGodly’. To me, as a medic, I know it is a social construct, a mental illness,” Kigwangalla, who is also a doctor, said in the tweet.
Last year the minister threatened to publish the names of gay people “selling their bodies.”
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