+Kampala, @Uganda:
IN UGANDA NO HOMO BILL STALLS OVER SUDDEN DEATH OF
OUTSPOKEN MP
The hate the gay people Uganda bill that was first
introduced by MP (Member of Parliament) @David Bahati in 2003 has yet hit
another huge huddle right before it was supposed to appear for debate on the
floor of the Ugandan Parliament within the last few weeks. As you remember, last
time we left off with Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament, Honorable Rebecca Kadaga
promising to pass the Anti-Homosexual bill as a Christmas present to all
Ugandans. Well being that Christmas is only a few days away it will be
interesting to see what happens.
It is early in the morning here in Namirembe, a suburb of Uganda’s capital city Kampala. Growing up here I always thought that Namirembe Hill had the best view of Kampala city.
From my apartment widow I see sky rise buildings and all the elements of a capital city. If I mute my iTunes and +Jay-Z stops rapping. I would hear the sounds of cars, motorcycles and no doubt a lot of people working. I am getting older now and becoming more of a TV person, especially the NEWS of wherever I am. It is early December/2012, a few weeks ago. I am seating in my apartment chatting things up with my old friend Penny. I was mainly complaining about how one of my cousins seems to never have his story right and how he tells you a million things but none of them are true! As Penny and I talk, breaking news appeared on +NTV Uganda, +Frank Walusimbi, one of Uganda’s best newsman proceeded to say that a few days ago one of Uganda’s most outspoken MPs had died and it was by poison, she was health one moment and dead the other. Her family was going through the deepest pain accompanied by death especially sudden death. President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni appeared in public denying all talks of foul play in the death of Nebanda. As you can imagine the media had a big party with this one. Death as mysterious as always appeared to prove once again powerful. The dead MP was a big critic of the Uganda Government and its agenda.
Although she was part of the ruling (National Resistance Movement Party) NRM, she seemed to believe less in her party’s agenda to develop our country. Recently she had exchanged disagreements with the president in public concerning the government’s failure to provide sufficient health care in her constituency and in the whole country for that matter. After that she would die suddenly days later and everyone is wondering if that had anything to do with it. But on record the president has said not. Like many youth here in Kampala and all over the country I began to follow MP Nebanda when she became one of the biggest critics for “presidential-term-limits” in Uganda. She and other MPs were labeled by their own party leaders as rebel MPs mainly because they were against most of the party’s agenda.
The gang of these MPs has been very vocal in Uganda’s 9th parliament in speaking against government corruption and amending the constitution to bring back presidential term limits. David Bahati, the biggest homophobe in the world was the last person to know where the dead MP was going and who she was with when she died according to her mother. With all this going on, the hate the gay people bill seems to be a challenge to pass because now the Ugandan Parliament has turned their attention on personal security and wonder if they are free to express their opinion publicly. It turns out that you may HATE gay people like David Bahati does but you cannot be immune to the jaws of death even if you believe you should kill a person for being GAY.
Nebanda will be missed, the media loved her, and she was only in her twenties like most of these MP here. May her soul rest in peace and we will look at the life she’s lived as a testimony to service for God and our country.
It is early in the morning here in Namirembe, a suburb of Uganda’s capital city Kampala. Growing up here I always thought that Namirembe Hill had the best view of Kampala city.
From my apartment widow I see sky rise buildings and all the elements of a capital city. If I mute my iTunes and +Jay-Z stops rapping. I would hear the sounds of cars, motorcycles and no doubt a lot of people working. I am getting older now and becoming more of a TV person, especially the NEWS of wherever I am. It is early December/2012, a few weeks ago. I am seating in my apartment chatting things up with my old friend Penny. I was mainly complaining about how one of my cousins seems to never have his story right and how he tells you a million things but none of them are true! As Penny and I talk, breaking news appeared on +NTV Uganda, +Frank Walusimbi, one of Uganda’s best newsman proceeded to say that a few days ago one of Uganda’s most outspoken MPs had died and it was by poison, she was health one moment and dead the other. Her family was going through the deepest pain accompanied by death especially sudden death. President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni appeared in public denying all talks of foul play in the death of Nebanda. As you can imagine the media had a big party with this one. Death as mysterious as always appeared to prove once again powerful. The dead MP was a big critic of the Uganda Government and its agenda.
Although she was part of the ruling (National Resistance Movement Party) NRM, she seemed to believe less in her party’s agenda to develop our country. Recently she had exchanged disagreements with the president in public concerning the government’s failure to provide sufficient health care in her constituency and in the whole country for that matter. After that she would die suddenly days later and everyone is wondering if that had anything to do with it. But on record the president has said not. Like many youth here in Kampala and all over the country I began to follow MP Nebanda when she became one of the biggest critics for “presidential-term-limits” in Uganda. She and other MPs were labeled by their own party leaders as rebel MPs mainly because they were against most of the party’s agenda.
The gang of these MPs has been very vocal in Uganda’s 9th parliament in speaking against government corruption and amending the constitution to bring back presidential term limits. David Bahati, the biggest homophobe in the world was the last person to know where the dead MP was going and who she was with when she died according to her mother. With all this going on, the hate the gay people bill seems to be a challenge to pass because now the Ugandan Parliament has turned their attention on personal security and wonder if they are free to express their opinion publicly. It turns out that you may HATE gay people like David Bahati does but you cannot be immune to the jaws of death even if you believe you should kill a person for being GAY.
Nebanda will be missed, the media loved her, and she was only in her twenties like most of these MP here. May her soul rest in peace and we will look at the life she’s lived as a testimony to service for God and our country.
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