Homa Bay Member of Parliament Peter Kaluma is set to introduce a Bill that will declare homosexuality in Kenya a crime.
Writing to National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula, Kaluma said that his proposed law also seeks to increase the penalty for those convicted of engaging or promoting homosexual acts to imprisonment for life sentence.
“I intend to bring legislation to criminalize and punish homosexuality and other unnatural sexual acts; and to further criminalize the promotion of such acts in Kenya,” the letter by Kaluma to Speaker Wetangula read in part.
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Kaluma states that his proposed law will strengthen the provisions of article 45 (2) of the constitution of Kenya which stipulates that “Every adult has the right to marry a person of the opposite sex, based on the free consent of the parties.”
“The proposed law intended to further the provisions of article 45 (2) of the constitution of Kenya and to protect the family will not only consolidate all existing laws relating to unnatural sexual acts but also increase the penalty for those convicted of engaging or promoting the acts to imprisonment for life or commensurate sentence,” wrote Kaluma.
The MP thus wants facilitation from the Speaker’s office in the consolidation of the Bill.
“I request your office to grant necessary facilities in aid of this urgent endeavor,” says Kaluma.
