The MP commonly known as Atuka attacked the Joe Biden Administration for mixing issues of trade and human rights clinched on Homosexuality

The MP for Agago county Hon Lagen David, said that Uganda might be forced to abandon the United States market through the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) if her participation is hinged on the condition that the country accepts homosexuality.

He was clarifying on reports which emerged indicating that President Museveni dispatched his son-in-law Odrek Rwabwogo to Washington, United States to try to stave off Uganda’s looming expulsion from AGOA, following pronouncement by the US to end Uganda’s eligibility for AGOA on 1st January 2024.

The Washington administration, while announcing the impending ban, stated the reason as gross violations of internationally recognized human rights and insisted that Uganda would not be part of AGOA going forward unless the Government publicly releases an action plan for addressing human rights concerns and repeal the Anti-Homosexuality Act.

If America insists that we should marry woman to woman, then we shall do away with the market because what we are looking for in that market are political relationships, but real trade volumes, that have shaped Uganda to the Middle-income status, that (US market) isn’t one of them. We have enough markets for Uganda, we have the East African Community, we have Southern African Development Community (SADC), we have the European Union, we have markets in China and India, said Lagen.

The MP commonly known as Atuka also attacked the Joe Biden Administration for mixing issues of trade and human rights clinched on Homosexuality's, saying Uganda already had complaints about the US demanding Uganda to only export raw materials especially coffee without adding value, conditions he said need to be discussed in the latest negotiations.

So, what we are waiting for is the US to understand that trade is different from human rights, these are quite divergent matters and the challenge we have is that the US doesn’t want us to add any value on anything yet among the negotiations we had as AGOA as we extend for 10 years, we should start adding value to the products.

LAWANG LUTEDERO

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