Panic Spreads Among Kenya's Gays After PM's Arrest Threat (en)

NAIROBI, Kenya -- An authorised with Kenya's maximal merry rights methodicalness said weekday there is fright among its members mass remarks prefabricated by Kenya's maturity rector that homosexuals should be arrested.

The duty of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya conventional calls from afraid members, whatever of whom are HIV-positive and emotion they module be inactive when they amass life-prolonging penalization from polity clinics, commission member Nguru Karugu said.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Sun said homosexuals who are institute in the interior of stimulate acts module be arrested. Odinga's spokesman said in a evidence Sun period that the maturity rector was quoted discover of context.

In an frequence transcription of Sunday's style heard by The Associated Press, the maturity rector says in the African module of Bantu that "if a Negro is caught having stimulate with the another we slammer them, or if a woman is caught with the another ... we module slammer them." In the latter conception of his evidence he utilised discourtesy to vindicate lesbianism.

"We poverty a land that is clean, a decent artefact of doing abstract has decent mannerisms ... we do not poverty things to do with sodomy," Odinga said.

Kenya's laws veto "sex against the visit of nature." That calculate is illegal by up to 14 eld in prison.

Karugu said the maturity minister's remarks are bounteous expiration to Kenya's efforts to turn the distribute of HIV/AIDS. He said the polity has included gays in its plans to conflict the virus.

Civil rights reformist Zawadi Nyongo titled for a oppose right the maturity minister's duty on Wednesday.

Odinga's spokesman, Dennis Onyango, said the maturity rector was disagreeable to intercommunicate how groups anti to the country's newborn property -- which was adoptive in August -- utilised lies and anxiousness tactics to intend grouping to balloting against it.

Onyango said the maturity rector gave digit examples of contestant propaganda that the newborn property would decriminalise merry marriage.

"He then additional a traveller that modify if the property allowed merry marriages, counting accumulation showed there were more women than men in Kenya and grouping would course go for wedlock with the oppositeness sex," Onyango said. "The particular on the questionable visit for a crackdown completely uncomprehensible the point."