MAWE Chair and Jay Z's advisor says no to gay stoning
Maendeleo ya Wanaume organization Chairman Ndiritu Njoka has opposed
the bill seeking to have gays stoned in public stating its
unconstitutional and against religious values.
“We must fight social vices like gay-ism but not celebrate their pain by treating hem like animals,” he stated.
Njoka
also doubted the sponsorship of the bill saying that some of the
clauses in the bill were included to ensure the bill is not enacted to
law.
“The clauses that state that a foreigner should be stoned and a citizen jailed for life clearly show that the sponsor of the bill wanted to ensure that it was not passed to law,” he stated.
Njoka blamed the Legal and Justice committee for having dropped an Anti-Homosexuality bill drafted by Maendeleo ya Wanaume that he said had punishment for such crimes within the constitution.
“In March we drafted a bill that was constitutional and Parliament ignored it and this suggests that there is some hidden agenda in the bill as our constitution is against such forms of punishments.”he stated.
In the Anti-Homosexuality Bill presented on March 22, 2014 by Njoka, the punishment was a jail term not exceeding 5 years and if the criminal repeat the offence then the jail term would be doubled.
The draft bill that was presented by the Speaker of the National Assembly to the Justice and Legal Affairs committee proposes that foreigners found practicing gay-ism should be stoned in the public if convicted of sodomy.
Kenyan nationals found guilty of the same will be jailed for life according to Edward Onmwong'a Nyakikeriga who drafted the bill for the Republican Liberty Party.
Parliament already has a caucus against the gay lifestyle with MPs stating they will take measures against it in February.
The bill comes at a time when various governments have been pushing to have laws against homosexuality acts with the recent one in Uganda where Uganda's constitutional court overturned an anti-homosexuality law that was branded draconian and "abominable" by rights groups, saying it was wrongly passed by parliament.
The law, signed by Uganda's veteran President Yoweri Museveni in February, said that homosexuals should be jailed for life, outlawed the promotion of homosexuality, and obliged Ugandans to denounce gays to the authorities.
Maendeleo ya Wanaume chair said that these kinds of punishment will only cause uproar from human right and civil rights organizations because Its punishment clauses are unacceptable.
“We all believe in anti-homosexual acts but we must also give the public the power to literally take law into their hands,” he said.
“We must fight social vices like gay-ism but not celebrate their pain by treating hem like animals,” he stated.
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| MAWE Chair Ndiritu Njoka.Photo/Courtsey |
“The clauses that state that a foreigner should be stoned and a citizen jailed for life clearly show that the sponsor of the bill wanted to ensure that it was not passed to law,” he stated.
Njoka blamed the Legal and Justice committee for having dropped an Anti-Homosexuality bill drafted by Maendeleo ya Wanaume that he said had punishment for such crimes within the constitution.
“In March we drafted a bill that was constitutional and Parliament ignored it and this suggests that there is some hidden agenda in the bill as our constitution is against such forms of punishments.”he stated.
In the Anti-Homosexuality Bill presented on March 22, 2014 by Njoka, the punishment was a jail term not exceeding 5 years and if the criminal repeat the offence then the jail term would be doubled.
The draft bill that was presented by the Speaker of the National Assembly to the Justice and Legal Affairs committee proposes that foreigners found practicing gay-ism should be stoned in the public if convicted of sodomy.
Kenyan nationals found guilty of the same will be jailed for life according to Edward Onmwong'a Nyakikeriga who drafted the bill for the Republican Liberty Party.
Parliament already has a caucus against the gay lifestyle with MPs stating they will take measures against it in February.
The bill comes at a time when various governments have been pushing to have laws against homosexuality acts with the recent one in Uganda where Uganda's constitutional court overturned an anti-homosexuality law that was branded draconian and "abominable" by rights groups, saying it was wrongly passed by parliament.
The law, signed by Uganda's veteran President Yoweri Museveni in February, said that homosexuals should be jailed for life, outlawed the promotion of homosexuality, and obliged Ugandans to denounce gays to the authorities.
Maendeleo ya Wanaume chair said that these kinds of punishment will only cause uproar from human right and civil rights organizations because Its punishment clauses are unacceptable.
“We all believe in anti-homosexual acts but we must also give the public the power to literally take law into their hands,” he said.
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