Uganda Police Force and sister security agencies have arrested a group of secondary teachers at Waterford Primary Nabisunsa (holiday coaching center for students) for wooing young boys into acts of homosexuality.
Vincent Sekatte the Criminal Investigations Unit (CID) Spokesperson says Police detectives arrested Mukasa Emmanuel and three others at the coaching centre in response to allegations from locals that; at least six teachers led by a one Joseph Ssemanda had been allegedly using their coaching centre to recruit young boys into acts of homosexuality.
According to primarily investigations, neighbours and eyewitnesses told police that they became suspicious and started questioning Mukasa’s motives after seeing him return to his home in Mpoma, Mukono district with different boys at home despite the fact that no wife or girlfriend was known to his name in the community.
The police boss added that their team recovered used and unused condoms, various tins of vaseline, and sexual penetrating lubricants like Pjur Back Door Silicone Anal lube at Mukasa’s apartment in Mpoma in Mukono.
Police adds that it has since received a recording of Mukasa kissing one of his former students. “One of the teachers called Mukasa Emmanuel was recorded by a neighbor at his apartment kissing a boy and it has since been discovered that this is one of his old students,” said a CID spokesperson.
Meanwhile, the capital times have since learnt that Mukasa Emmanuel is a teacher at Seeta High school whereas Ssemanda Joseph the ring leader was a former teacher at Seeta High but is now with St Mary’s Senior Secondary school Kitende in Wakiso.
In February 2014, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, signed into law the Anti-Homosexuality Act. Under the law, those convicted of “homosexual acts” faced seven years to life in prison. The law also included provisions that extradite Ugandan nationals living outside of the country and extradite them back to Uganda to receive sentencing.
The law elicited international outrage and governments withheld aid to Uganda. In part due to this international pressure, in August 2014, the Constitutional Court of Uganda ruled the act invalid on procedural grounds.
Reports indicate that there have been recent increased levels of violence and discrimination against the LGBT community.