Uganda accuses World Bank of blackmail over anti-gay law
World | Agence-France Presse | Updated: February 28, 2014 23:17 IST
Kampala: Uganda accused the World Bank of blackmail on Friday after
the lender stalled a $90 million loan over the east African nation's
adoption of a draconian anti-gay law.
"World Bank is a multi-lateral institution that should not blackmail
its members however small," government spokesman Ofwono Opondo said on
Twitter.
The World Bank announced on Thursday that it was blocking the loan,
which was intended to help Uganda strengthen its health care system.
Earlier this week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed off on one
of the world's toughest anti-gay laws despite warnings from his
Western allies.
Museveni capped his defence of the law - which could see homosexuals
jailed for life and requires people to denounce them - with a lurid
description of his particular revulsion to oral sex.
"We have postponed the project for further review to ensure that the
development objectives would not be adversely affected by the
enactment of this new law," a World Bank spokesman said.
Opondo argued in another tweet that "this so-called 'cut' is attempted
blackmail to set Ugandans against their government."
Museveni has been in power for 28 years, a record in East Africa.
The move follows action by Norway and Denmark to freeze or change aid
programs for Uganda and blunt criticism from the United States and
Sweden.
US Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the new law as akin to
anti-Semitic legislation in Nazi Germany and apartheid in South
Africa.
But Opondo replied by accusing the West of attempting to impose its
values on Africans.
"Why does the West criminalise polygamy but allow homosexuality if
indeed they are defending (freedom of association)," he said.
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