By CHIMPREPORTS
President Museveni has said Uganda will not bow to pressure from foreign countries over its decision to enact the Anti-homosexuality.
While the Ugandan government maintains the recently-enacted law is meant to protect the traditional African marriages and cultural values, the liberal western countries argue that it violates rights of sexual minority groups.
Museveni said Uganda is standing strong, and will not give in to the desires of the West.
“The pressures we are getting from outside about the homosexuality law, some of the people may be worried but me I’m not worried at all,” said Museveni.
“This is because this is an opportunity to clarify one point that Uganda can stand on its own and some of us are indigenous people of this area, this is our area for the last 1,000 years,” he emphasised.
“We have been active here, the Europeans came for a short period of time and went, our communities are very strong,” he added.
Museveni was addressing a press conference in Entebbe on Friday night.
The United States has slapped sanctions including revocation of visas for Members of Parliament and encouraged its business community to not invest in Uganda.
Washington also intends to scrap the Africa Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade deal with Uganda over the law.
Activists have since challenged the law in the Constitutional Court with a verdict expected later next year.
“For me I’m confident that we shall manage, and you can see our economy is growing, our inflation is one of the lowest now,” said Museveni.
“And I would advise those putting us under pressure to stop because it is not good for them. We shall prove our point that African countries can stand on their own,” he emphasised.
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