Homosexual man murders partner due to non-payment
Image via WikipediaKAMPALA, Uganda – After the brutal murder of Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato last week, media, homosexual activists, and human rights groups falsely claimed it was the result of anti-homosexual sentiments in Uganda.
However, on Wednesday police arrested a man by the name of Nsubuga Enock who they say was a sex partner of Kato’s and who has confessed to the murder.
According to Inspector General Kale Kayihura, the suspect said “he negotiated with the deceased to be paid money as he was to be used as a sexual partner.”
He said the man then had sex, but Kato did not pay. “The following day, Nsubuga confesses that he picked a hammer from the bathroom and hit him on the head,” said Kayihura.
“There is nothing concrete to suggest that Nsubuga was motivated by hate, although we are not dismissing it.”
Police also said Enock was a well known thief.
Kato was murdered on January 24. Media and activists around the world immediately decried his death as a direct attack on his homosexual stance and Kato is being described as an activist hero and “model.”
New York based Human Rights Watch issued a statement last Thursday calling for thorough investigation of the case. “David Kato’s death is a tragic loss to the human rights community,” said Maria Burnett, senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “David had faced the increased threats to Ugandan LGBT people bravely and will be sorely missed.”
Newspapers across North America last week slammed Uganda as a “deeply” anti-homosexual country and cited Kato’s high-profile involvement in activist groups as reason for the murder.
Kato reportedly had “many death threats” over the last months after he, along with other homosexual activists, was “outed” in a newspaper that published his picture.
