Otto Odonga
During the February 2010 Human Rights and Sexual Orientation forum in Kampala, Member of Parliament Otto Odonga said he would kill his son if he was gay. The forum was setup to address the now failed Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009. Warren Throckmorton spoke with Otto Odonga via Skype on Tuesday and he expects David Bahati will reintroduce the bill soon.
Lawmaking is probably a month away but one legislator is predicting that a re-introduced Anti-Homosexuality Bill will be law within two months. Otto Odonga, a member of the committee which Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee in the 8th and now again in the 9th Parliament told me via Skype that he expects David Bahati to reintroduce the bill as soon as possible. He predicted that the bill will come to the floor of Parliament as soon as rules allow.

“It will be expedited this time around and passed within one, maybe two months time,” the MP said. Odonga also told me that Stephen Tashobya, the chair of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee, was re-appointed to that same post in the new Parliament. While Bahati will need to start from scratch on the bill, the committee will be able to use the report issued last session as a basis for their work this time around. That report called for minimal changes and retained the death penalty for certain offenses. Odonga said the bill has wide support in the Parliament.

Odonga also said that David Bahati was selected to be the coordinator of the Parliamentary Prayer Fellowship.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) posted an analysis of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee report referred to by Otto Odonga. The analysis is followed by the complete text of the report.
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