Social worker arrested over engaging and luring youth into homosexuality

Police at Abaita Ababiri in Katabi Town Council, Wakiso district has arrested a 30 year old man one Ismail Wamala over engaging in homosexuality and luring youth into the vice that was recently banned by President Museveni.

According to OC Abaita Ababiri Police Station Mr Robert Rukundo said the police swung into action after a tip off from the suspect’s boss Mr Babu Mufti at The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) Entebbe branch where he was employed as a social worker.

“Mr Babu came and reported to us recently of the suspects strange behaviors’ towards fellow men at work and some of the young men around the community when they go out to sensitise people about HIV/AIDS awareness  so we started trailing him” he said.

The Suspect Wamala Ismail is led to the Abaita Police Station by one of the plain clothed policeman after his arrest at the market. Photo/Entebbe Post

Mr Rukundo says after about two weeks they found out he had a partner who used to go to his home and they would practice homosexuality.

“We took the time and asked some of the youth that were seen with him and they confessed that he would encourage them to join homosexuality and at times touch them fondly, so after those confessions we swung into action and arrested him at Abaita market where he was sensitizing traders on HIV/AIDs in order to stop him from spreading the evil vice which contradicts with our laws and culture” he said.

Rukudo revealed that Wamala who is a resident of Katabi Busambaga will be transferred to the Entebbe Central Police station where charges of engaging in homosexuality will be labeled against him and taken to court to face the charges.

The Suspect Wamala Ismail after his arrest. Photo/ Entebbe Post

According to a source that was privy to the suspect’s behaviors’ but preferred anonymity told this publication that Mr Wamala could have learnt the vice from a boy’s home in Entebbe which was run by a white man called Mathew kerehan.

“We used to play football with him when we were younger but there came this white man who took him in since he was an orphan but after sometime he started acting strangely towards other boys. I strongly believe that is where he learnt those behaviors’” he noted.

The source said the community around the home became suspicious of the boy’s activities in the home thus raided it together with local area leaders and security which subsequently led to the deportation of Mr Mathew back to the United Kingdom.
Recently President Yoweri Museveni assented to and signed into law the Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2023 on 29th May 2023, which was tabled by Bugiri Municipality Legislator, Asuman Basalirwa before Parliament.

Bugiri MP Asuman Basalirwa at Parliament on the new anti gay bill on May 29 2023. Photo. Courtesy Daily Monitor

Parliament led by Speaker Anita Among noted that it cannot sit idly and watch as the country’s morals are eroded by this foreign practice.

The Bill was first passed 21 March 2023 by Parliament but was returned by President Museveni where the Committee on Legal and Parliamentary Affairs reviewed the concerns and proposals made by the President regarding distinguishing between being a homosexual and actually engaging in acts of homosexuality.

Whereas the Anti-Homosexuality bill had been signed into law by President Museveni back in 2014, the Constitutional Court annulled it in the same year, after it emerged that Parliament lacked quorum before passing the bill.

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