Critics of CJ remarks on gay rights misled

A few days ago Chief Justice Willy Mutunga was a chief guest during the launch of Fida office in Kampala, Uganda. Speaking to the human rights defenders who graced the occasion, Dr Mutunga confined his statement to issues of human rights and social justice. From the word go, he made it clear he did not intend to focus on controversies that existed in the Constitution and other legislations. This was in respect to some aspects of human rights.

Reading the CJ’s body language and tone of his remarks, it was clear he made the statement in his personal capacity as veteran human rights defender. Having been briefed and the light of statements attributed to his hosts who spoke before him, it was given there was no way the CJ would have avoided the issue when he took to the floor.
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