{"id":9712,"date":"2018-04-22T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T04:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9712"},"modified":"2018-04-22T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T04:23:11","slug":"99-of-kenyans-support-laws-criminalizing-same-sex-unions-uhuru-told-cnn","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/99-of-kenyans-support-laws-criminalizing-same-sex-unions-uhuru-told-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"99% of Kenyans support laws criminalizing same-sex unions \u2013 Uhuru told CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__title\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta has firmly reiterated that he will continue to respect Kenyan laws regarding same-sex relationships. Kenya like much of Africa criminalize such relationships.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<section class=\"article__body\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article-content__text article-content__left-column\">\n<p>The president said even though the subject was of no major importance for citizens, an overwhelming majority of Kenyans fully supported legislation criminalizing same-sex unions.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking during an interview with American cable-television network <span class=\"caps\">CNN<\/span>\u2019s Christine Amanpour on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (<span class=\"caps\">CHOGM<\/span>) which ended last Friday in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to be honest with you, these are the positions we have always maintained, those are the laws that we have and those laws are 100% supported by 99% of the Kenyan people, regardless of where they come from,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that contrary to how the host wanted to portray the subject as one of human rights and personal freedoms, to Kenyans it was far more than that, he said it was a societal and cultural issue for most citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an issue of society, of our own base as a culture, as a people, regardless of which community you come from, this is not acceptable, this is not agreeable. This is not about Uhuru Kenyatta saying yes or no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, whiles he will not rule out the discussion coming up years after he is president, he was ready to defend the laws as they are now and to also do so whiles ensuring that any Kenyan obeying the laws is not harassed of violated.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Africa maintains colonial laws that expressly criminalize lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. East Africa is a hotbed for clamping down on such people with Uganda and Tanzania being top of the chart.<\/p>\n<p>Over in southern Africa, except South Africa where it is legal, Zambia and Zimbabwe have increasingly cautioned people of the orientation and even arrested some of them. The cries by human rights groups have done very little to dissuade government from enforcing existing laws.<\/p>\n<p>At the opening of the Commonwealth Summit, Prime Minister Theresa May said she regretted that Britain contributed to what she called \u2018biased and discriminatory\u2019 laws and urged countries to revoke those laws. She has received a heavy backlash on social media spheres across Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta has firmly reiterated that he will continue to respect Kenyan laws regarding same-sex relationships. Kenya like much of Africa criminalize such relationships. The president said even though the subject was of no major importance for citizens, an overwhelming majority of Kenyans fully supported legislation criminalizing same-sex unions. 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