Kampala - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the arrest of homosexuals for carrying out "abominable acts", local newspapers said yesterday. "I have told the CID [Criminal Investigations Department] to look for homosexuals, lock them up and charge them," the state-owned newspaper New Vision quoted him as saying on Monday at the opening of a meeting on reproductive health.
Mr Museveni said his upbringing and the Bible told him homosexuality was wrong, the paper reported. "God created Adam and Eve," he said. "I did not see God creating man and man." Homosexuality is illegal or taboo in many African countries and few gay people feel able to be open about their sexuality. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe once described homosexuals as "lower than dogs".