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Namirembe Picks Interest into Homosexuality Claims against King’s College Budo

How prestigious schools like Kibuli SS, Gayaza High School, Makerere College and Naalya Secondary School are all promoters of the ugly vice

Moses Kalaire | UNN Times ReporterbyMoses Kalaire | UNN Times Reporter
January 19, 2023
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Namirembe Picks Interest into Homosexuality Claims against King’s College Budo

Homosexuality is widely believed to be a taboo in Uganda.

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KAMPALA – Namirembe Diocese has launched investigations into the complaints of homosexuality levelled against some staff members at King’s College Budo, one of the prominent schools in Uganda.

Rev Nathan Mulondo -the secretary in charge of education, revealed that Namirembe Diocese – the school’s founding body was concerned about the allegations- which one of the parents has shared through a social media.

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At the beginning of this week, the said parent took to social media platforms – revealing how one of the teachers at the school had been sodomising his son.

“The teacher of Kings College Budo has been sodomising my son for four years…… My son got problems going to the toilet so I took him to Mulago hospital because I have my relative doctor there. They found him with STI commonly found in gay men,” read, the post that went viral on social media.

Rev Mulondo said that although there were some queries about the (parent’s) message – the fact was that homosexuality existed at many schools across the country – including church-founded. He added that if any report was made formally or informally they should be taken seriously and probed to reach the bottom of the problem.

He, however, raised concern on the post questioning why the parent had failed to report to the authorities for the last four years her child was suffering.

“These are all lines of investigations. In the post, it is said that there was some victimisation and we cannot rule out that this can happen. That is why we need to look at this issue. The investigations will involve different people, from management, PTA, body of governors and diocese,” stated the priest.

Our efforts to contact the school administrators including the head teacher, John Fred Kazibwe were futile. However, following the social media post, a letter purportedly issued by the head teacher started circulating on social media – indicating that the school was confirming the parent’s complaints.

Authorities at the school, including members of the school board, have however dismissed the letter as a forgery by people with ill intentions. When asked on the matter, the Old Budonians Club President, Jimmy Katenda, who is also a member of the school board of governor, told our reporter that the school’s top organ could not comment on the matter at the moment.

He however also pointed out that there were several on-going meetings to reach “the bottom of the problem.” Allegations of homosexuality at Budo, specifically, are not new. In the past years, there have been reports about this problem in the school but scant information has been given by the administrators. For instance, in 2021 when fire gutted the school for the third time in a space of one month, this issue was pointed out.

Sources in the police who were investigating the fire pointed out that it had started after the administrators expelled six students who beat up a male student for engaging in homosexuality. During an interview with a local newspaper, Patrick Bakka Male, the then-school head teacher (now deceased), confirmed that they had expelled students for beating up their colleague they suspected of sodomy.

However, he said the students did not have evidence that the accused was actually involved in the practice. Founded in 1906, King’s College Budo was started as a boys’ only school for the sons of chiefs and Kings. In 1934 girls were also admitted, making it a mixed-sex school.

It should be noted that homosexuality allegations have been part of the school right from its old days. Carol Summers captured the allegation in a research paper titled; ‘Subterranean Evil’ and ‘Tumultuous Riot’ in Buganda: Authority and Alienation at King’s College, Budo, 1942. Summers referred to the vice as one of the many issues that led to the riot that saw the school being closed on the eve of the Kabaka Edward Muteesa II coronation.

The researcher pointed out that in 1942, the school head prefect pointed to homosexuality among the boys, authorities- prefects, African teachers, and white government employees. He also told of a student that had been found while in the act.

Back then, the vice also involved favours in the form of gifts and more. Pastor Solomon Male, an anti-homosexuality activist, said that many times parents and other members of the public shy away from discussing this elephant in the room to an extent of mocking those who point out such schools where the vice is thriving.

In his view, even the investigations like the one instituted by Namirembe Diocese might not help in solving the problem – given the fact that a handful of ‘incidents’ of the vice gets reported. He, however, advised that there is a need to proactively combat the vice other than applying reactionary methods when a case is reported.

Indeed, as pastor Male points out, this will not be the first time that a school has been the subject of a homosexuality probe. For instance, a similar investigation into four prestigious secondary schools in the Kampala and Wakiso districts was launched in 2013 over reports that their students were involved in gay activities. These included Gayaza High School, Makerere Secondary School, Kibuli SS, and Naalya Secondary School.

At that time the then-the State Minister for Ethics and Integrity, Rev Father Simon Peter Lokodo, revealed that a team from the Department of Ethics and Education had discovered a high percentage of students involved in lesbianism and homosexuality. However, it appears that the issue was not publicly addressed and no report was produced from the investigations.

Instead, similar cases of this type of sexual deviation have been reported in other schools over time. Rev Mulondo believes that hiding or concealing vices within a school or organization can actually make the problem worse over time and that making these issues public could help address them more effectively.

In Uganda, homosexuality is still considered illegal. The Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014 was invalidated on procedural grounds by the Constitutional Court in 2016. However, Homosexuality remains criminalized under the Penal Code Act as a crime against morality.

This means that individuals who engage in homosexuality can still be prosecuted under the law. In the same development, there is a group of people who think that the current scandal being raised might have a hidden motive.

For instance, a parent, who preferred anonymity, believes that although the allegations of homosexuality might be true having heard it himself, there might also be someone or a group of people using it to bring down the newly-appointed head teacher – Kazibwe.

“There is a lot of politics involved in these schools and the headmaster, who is relatively new, might be facing pressure from other parties. And I will not be surprised if this entire mayhem ends up in his neck,” noted the parent.

Kazibwe – the former head teacher of Mengo Secondary school was transferred to Budo in 2021 following the retirement of Bakka-the college’s 13th leader who had been at the helm of the school since 2008.

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