By David Isabirye
Over the years, Uganda has gained reputation as one of the most unsafe countries for LGBTIQ persons and homosexuality.
A one Ivan Galiwango, 37, is believed to be one of the personalities engaged in this same-sex relation, according to impeccable sources.
Galiwango is a known sports personality in Uganda who hails from Kyabando, a Kampala city suburb.
He is reportedly on the run after being nabbed with a one Mike Walukagga in the “forbidden” act.
Christened as “Daddy”, Galiwango was arrested by the Police in Kyabando under the file case no. Kye 18/9/04/23 and released on police bond on 20th April 2023.
Since the release, Galiwango defaulted the police bond and he is on the run, reportedly in the areas of Masaka city, about 130KM from the capital Kampala.
Little is known about his gay partner Walukagga who is also wanted to answer the same charges.
Such acts have been long severely penalized in Uganda on account of colonial era laws.
The Uganda penal code Act Cap 120 under section 145, for instance, provides for unnatural offenses against the order of nature and the particular section targets LGBTIQ persons and does not provide for consensual sexual relationships between consenting adults together with the sexual offences law passed by Parliament.
These have been used by the Ugandan authorities to stigmatize and discriminate LGBTIQ persons.
LGBT persons in Uganda are on a daily basis subjected to insults, violent attacks, emotional abuse and evictions by society, family, friends, neighbors and sometimes employers since the living context is characterized by acute stigma and discrimination towards LGBT persons based on their sexual orientation and sometimes death.
A couple of months ago, there was a young LGBT member brutally killed in Uganda in cold blood under unclear circumstances.
