CLAN chiefs (owitong) under their apex body Tekwaro Lango leadership under the Paramount Chief(Won Nyaci) Eng Dr. Michael Moses Odongo Okune have asked civil servants and their political counterparts to be more frugal in order to counter the effects of World Bank(WB) sudden suspension of financial support to Uganda. The Bank, in a statement says it will not consider new loans to Uganda after the enactment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA), 2023 targeting bum shafters, usually referred to by proponents as LGBTQ. The WB statement said; “…no new public financing to Uganda will be presented to our Board of Executive Directors until the efficacy of the additional measures has been tested.”
The government reacted swiftly, branding the action by WB as double standards and coercive, accusing the West of using money to arm-twist and bully Uganda and other developing countries. Now Okune has added his voice asking the people of Lango and the rest of Ugandans to support President Yoweri Museveni, who assented to the Law passed by duly elected parliamentarians. “It’s time for Ugandans to stand tall to show to the rest of the world that we are not only patriotic but also cherish our values, norms and principles embedded in our culture,” Okune pleads. He urges the civil servants to desist from corruption and theft rampant in the government offices so that the available funds raised by citizens through taxes are put to proper use for service delivery.
The acclaimed civil engineer also took a swipe at the West for always undermining Africans. “…while there are human rights principles that are universal, it’s wrong and misplaced to peg and impose repugnant values and practices to us simply because they want dominance,” he asserted. Without mincing words, Okune says the question of LGBTQ is a dangerous societal theatrics because when Africans stop procreation, the West will have no people to repay their loans.
He also cautions the West against exporting and imposing their culture on Africans, something he says has always led to a clash in values and norms. “…we uphold marriage and family as the nucleus of society, they don’t, we value decency in dress by not exposing private parts but the whites can go almost naked along the streets,” he pointed out, adding no African country has ever slapped travel bans on them. The Speaker Tekwaro Lango Willy Omodo-Omodo maintains that the move by World Bank and other western allies will only serve to augment the Anti-Homosexuality Law beyond Uganda.
