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Tanzania Plans To Introduce Tougher Anti-gay Bill
As Uganda battles donor backlash for passing a law that outlaws homosexuality, a Tanzanian MP is working on a private member’s Bill that seeks to tighten the law against same sex relationships.
Ezekiel Wenje from the main opposition Chama cha Democrasia na Maendeleo party told The EastAfrican that he had already given parliament notice of his intention to draft the Bill.
“In line with parliament’s Standing Orders, I submitted my proposal for enactment of a new anti-gay law called The Bill to Prohibit and Control any form of Sexual Relations between Persons of the Same Sex, 2014, and it has been received in parliament,” he said.
Mr Wenje invoked Rule 81(1) and (2) of parliament to submit his proposal for the intended Bill, but he will need the support of majority members to push it through.
“The work to draft the Bill has started. I am being supported by MPs from my party; I also have support from other parties including Chama Cha Mapinduzi,” he said.
Mr Wenje said homosexuality is on the rise in Tanzania because the existing legislation does not provide a sufficient deterrent.
Under the current law, convicted suspects face custodial sentences ranging from 20 years to life imprisonment. According to Section 154 of the Act, any person who has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature is liable to imprisonment for life.
But Wenje said the law does not cover those who induce others to become gays or those who promote the behaviour.
He said there are many gays in Dar es Salaam who operate in the open, go to bars and social places, and that more young people are choosing the lifestyle.
Mr Wenje is optimistic that his Bill will receive support from his colleagues and eventually get passed into law despite a predictable donor stance on the issue.
“We should not care about aid, we should care about our values and the future of the country,” he said when asked if passing of such law would not lead to donor’s freezing aid like is happening in Uganda.
Uganda has suffered aid cuts following the decision by President Yoweri Museveni to sign a private member’s Bill into law in February.
The US and Nordic countries have announced withdrawal of financial support for a number of programmes that triggered a 2.5 per cent depreciation of the Uganda shilling over the last three days of February.
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doty7
April 4, 2014 at 8:58 am
That is the way to go. Why should we eat shit just becoz we need their dirty aid. Let africa stand out and grow otherwise we will die bergers.
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April 4, 2014 at 4:14 pm
Individuals who are most hostile toward gays and hold strong anti-gay views have same-sex desires there are not aware of. You doty7 might be an undercover gay.
#guru
April 4, 2014 at 10:03 pm
Yebo
April 4, 2014 at 9:38 am
We wont allow such ****** thing.gay pipo should go 2 hell.if we arrest u thats the end of u.
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April 4, 2014 at 4:17 pm
Mind your own business arsehole. Stop the hate you id!ot.
I LoVe hetero anal sex
April 4, 2014 at 5:46 pm
“trying to get African Homophobes off the hook”. It’s exploring the causes of homophobia in Africa.
shipson
April 4, 2014 at 9:54 am
Walasa mune ezekil wenje MP. whatever your name is. Why ukutombana mumafi? Aatase.. They can keep their money, we will keep our culture and dignity. We shall fight to keep our asses safe though some former opposition leader once said “WE HAVE SUCH LAWS IN OUR COUNTRY. WHAT WE NEED IS TO IMPLEMENT THEM”. That’s why we need to see the draft constitution.
GAY GOD
April 4, 2014 at 4:24 pm
Negative attitude towards homosexuality is likely to be more pronounced among individuals who harbor unacknowledged attraction towards the same sex. Seems as if homosexuals remind you of similar tendencies within yourself.
Kenn
April 4, 2014 at 12:29 pm
Bravo TZ i am visiting you in four days time, i will rally with you.
Homophobes Likely To Be Closet Gays, Study Finds
April 4, 2014 at 4:31 pm
You remind me of Ted Haggard, the evangelical preacher who opposed gay marriage but was exposed in a gay sex scandal in 2006.
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April 4, 2014 at 3:11 pm
“Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.”
Cool mo D
April 4, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Step in the right direction TZ let us avoid sodom and gomora..
Homophobes Likely To Be Closet Gays, Study Finds
April 4, 2014 at 4:29 pm
You already live in Sodom & Gomora.. look around you.. fathers raping their own daughters, sons bonking dogs, daughters selling p**sy to 50 men a day. Homosexuals are the only normal people left, at least its not their choice to be gay. The rest of you lot are hypocrites.
shamwari
April 4, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Homosexuality is a natural part in the spectrum of human sexuality, just as homosexuality and bisexuality are found in nature. It cannot be introduced.
With all due respect put that in your brain.
What will happen if Church of England accepts gay marriage,
April 4, 2014 at 5:40 pm
“African Christians will be killed if Church of England accepts gay marriage, The archbishop of Canterbury said he has seen mass grave of Christians killed by neighbours who said they feared being ‘made to become gay”
If the Church of England celebrated gay marriages, he added, “the impact of that on Christians far from here, in South Sudan, Pakistan, Nigeria and other places would be absolutely catastrophic. Everything we say here goes round the world.”
icinshikululwa
April 4, 2014 at 6:14 pm
Yu were born a human, but it up to yu to become what ever yu want to be. Do brame yo mother or yo father who gave that sperm for yu to live in eath today;
Go and deporst those yo sperms in yo fellow man’z (same sex) anus! But, never put us in yo rubish yu have chosen.
jamakudi
April 4, 2014 at 9:08 pm
I agree with Mugabe. Homos are DOGS!