Ugandan comedian, Idringi Patrick Salvador has called out Ugandans for using homosexuality to cover up leaders stealing money meant for improving the lives of the vulnerable people.
In a post on his X/Twitter account, Salvador turned the blazing guns towards the ‘so called anti-gay activists who he says have turned a blind eye to the actual problem affecting the country and instead choose to ‘waste a lot of time and energy discussing how people are meant to love each other.’
‘So a man sleeping with another man or a woman sleeping with another woman is more immoral than individuals siphoning and stealing money meant for the most vulnerable of people, money meant to improve other people’s lives??
President Yoweri Museveni signed the anti-homosexuality bill into law in May last year. The law has received support from many people in the East African country, where some see it as behavior imported from abroad and not a sexual orientation.
Salvador revealed that it is better to start focusing on the real issues that affect Ugandans in all aspects rather than dwelling on things that he deems not important.
“Question: Will fighting homosexuality improve the health conditions of this country, improve the education system? Infrastructure? Welfare of the people?” He inquired.
Salvador’s submissions come after the United Kingdom government on Tuesday, April 30, slapped the Speaker of Parliament, Anitah Among with a travel ban and asset freeze sanctions for allegedly “benefiting from corruption at its worst and that has no place in society”.
The sanctions were connected to the 2023 iron sheet scandal in Karamoja where Hon. Among was listed as having received as many as 500 sheets procured by the Office of the Prime Minister for vulnerable persons in Karamoja sub-region.
The parliament issued a statement blaming the UK government for using the scandal as a “ruse to conceal the real, unstated but clearly obvious reason for the sanctions”.
