Kenyan Lawmakers Now Plan To Ban Homosexuality. Rights Of Joji Baro ,Binyavanga And Other Gays In Trouble

The Swahili Sages once said “Ukiona mwenzako anyolewa kichwa chako kitie maji” and true to this statement gay people might not be safe anymore in Kenya after Uganda banned homosexuality.

According to Voice of Africa one member of parliament Irungu Kang’ata is gearing up to introduce a motion to combat homosexuality.

If this law comes into force there will be tougher penalties than the existing 14 year sentence for homosexual acts. The 14 year sentence law still has loopholes. This is due to the fact that it has to be proven that indeed the two consenting sexual parties were involved in the act, and to prove this one has to intrude into their privacy .This is against Article 31of the constitution that provides every person with privacy. In addition the constitution protects all Kenyan people from discrimination regardless of sexual orientation, gender or religion.

If Irungu and his team of homophobes (with all due respect) manage to pull this off, the very rights of Joji Baro, Binyavanga Wainaina and other gay people will be in jeopardy. It’s of my opinion that banning or restricting homosexuality is pure oppression. I think if laws are being made it should be laws to build this country, not pulling us back to the dark pre-independent days where freedom was just but a pipe dream.

I think Kenya has way bigger problems than who is banging who. People are dying in Turkana while the disabled are crawling on the streets of Nairobi because they cannot afford wheelchairs, children are surviving on one meal a day while others are bedridden because they cannot afford medication .Take a walk in the streets of Nairobi and you will see bigger issues that need to be solved.

What’s the difference between the law makers and the colonialists? Shoving your moral opinion down our throats and forcing us to toe the line in accordance to what is right to you is equal to tyranny.

Dedan Kimathi

Dedan Kimathi did not lose his life or get jailed so that heterosexuals can achieve freedom; freedom was for all of us regardless of tribe, religion, sexual orientation, age and economic status. Banning the rights of specific people is like spitting on the graves of those who fought for our freedom!

I pray that a day will not come where an innocent Kenyan will be afraid to be who they are ,walking on the street with their lover but cannot hold hands or show affection because they are afraid of being jailed or lynched. I believe that as Kenyans and you the lawmakers should fight for the rights of everyone, regardless of gender sex age or economic status.