ADVERTISEMENTKAMPALA — A former Ugandan ethics minister who championed a bill to introduce the death penalty for same-sex relationships and sought to regulate what women could wear died on Saturday, officials said. Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo announced the news of Lokodo’s death during a radio program on Saturday. The country’s National Human Rights Commission, where Lokodo served after a decade as ethics minister, expressed “great shock and pain” at losing their colleague. President Yoweri Museveni said Lokodo “served the nation gallantly” and would be missed. Lokodo was best known internationally for drafting legislation that could have imposed the death penalty for homosexual relations in his homeland.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 30, 2022 17:15 UTC