Kembabazi’s “Kampala Exposed” ran off Facebook 1

Banished off Facebook: Kembabazi’s tawdry gossip putrid dish

Check out this whiny rant from that woman, Kembabazi, a former employee of Uganda’s pit latrine publication, the Red Pepper. She repeatedly set up a slimy page on Facebook and had it shut down seven times because it was propagating hate. I blogged about it four days ago, and prayed that something be done to shut it down for good. Facebook has heard the prayers, shut down the site and closed Kembabazi’s account for good measure.

It would appear that the heat has finally got to Arinaitwe Rugyendo’s protegé, Kembabazi, and she has decided to buckle under due to the activist pressure.

Money [edited] whine from her [now removed] blog:

Things come and go, before Facebook we had tagged.com and MySpace.com, yahoo’s chat was very popular then, but all those are history now as everybody has embraced Facebook. Who knows, even Facebook will go and something more interesting will come up. And trust human beings, just like we left the others, we will abandon you and your miserable boys and move on to something more free, more captivating and less dictating … I will not try to sign up for Facebook, though I know I can (I am that smart, trust me), however, I will look at other ways of doing what I do in such a way that will still reach my fans. I will not lie there and let my brilliant idea die because a bunch of idiots are against me. I am not like that….so you can go to hell with your Facebook.

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Do I detect a whiff of sour grapes there? Smart? Does the above rant sound like the voice of a smart person? No, I didn’t think so either.

Now, please let’s go for her on piece of trash on Blogger. Watch out for any hateful, incendiary, murderous, toxic articles on her blog and let’s report them. Please don’t tire of reporting. Eventually, Blogger will take note and act.

UPDATE: JANUARY 9, 2013: HER BLOG HAS ALSO BEEN REMOVED!

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Uganda’s Red Pepper spawns copycat hate publications 1

If you are on Facebook, look out for the page above which goes under the name “Kampala Exposed: Rumors and Facts.”

Over the past few days, this page has been used to smear Ugandans with the express intention of getting them lynched, fired from their jobs, pilloried and goodness knows what other malicious intents. A number of Ugandans have been named as gay, with the site inciting readers to find and annihilate them in any way possible.

Spawning copycat odious publications: Red Pepper’s Arinaiwe Rugyendo

We are on constant alert and have thus far managed to report the page to Facebook Administration who have, bless them, pulled the page down more than three times already. The people behind it simply put it up again.

Our sources suggest that the page is being peddled by a woman called Kembabazi, a former employee of the Red Pepper, but I haven’t been able to confirm this yet. Still, the pit-latrine postings have all the hallmarks of the Red Pepper so there is credence in the claims that Arinaitwe Rugyendo’s Red Pepper is the direct or indirect Genesis of this vile, scurrilous effort that has been set up deliberately to ruin innocent people’s lives.

The author of the Facebook page has also set up a blog (and GMAIL account kampalaexposed@gmail.com) with the same disgusting intentions: http://kampalaexposed.blogspot.com/

Check out this particularly odious post targeting Kasha Nabagesera.

If this doesn’t need concerted global action from every well-intentioned well-wisher, I can’t think of what does. We are working tooth and nail  to find out who the person behind this filth is.

Any help we can get to stop them will be welcome. Please feel free to e-mail me (or anyone in Uganda you are in contact with ) with any information at supakoja@yahoo.com, by return comment, or via Twitter at https://twitter.com/Seba_Space.

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The Red Pepper prints gay porn on its front page 15

Uganda desperately needs press regulation!

As most people in Britain know, the British press is  on the back foot following revelations of  misconduct by a number of journalists from various newspapers over the years. The revelations led to an inquiry by a man called Lord Leveson into press [mis]conduct. The short of it is that the press in Britain have been ordered to come up with a way of regulating themselves so that the invasion of privacy and other unacceptable misconduct on their part is halted.

But now check out the sordid, putrid, stuff from more than 3,000 miles away that a tabloid in Uganda, called the The Red Pepper, has emblazoned on its front page:

Mothers and children woke up to this edition of Uganda’s Red Pepper this morning.

Yours truly has blanked out the faces of the protagonists but the Red Pepper saw no need for such caution. While there are a lot of questions to be asked about the pictures themselves, not least of which is how they ended up with the Red Pepper, what has Uganda come to whereby these kinds of pornographic images are served up to families for breakfast, lunch and dinner?

The inside spread

I had to think twice about whether I wasn’t feeding into the frenzy by publishing the pictures on here but, as a friend from another forum has already pointed out, they are already making a splash everywhere so it is not as though I am revealing something new. Indeed, reproducing them is necessary in order for the world to understand the depths of depravity Uganda’s journalism has plumbed.

Anti-gay activists in Uganda routinely use children in their campaigns

It is not the first time this kind of thing has made the front pages of the Red Pepper. The only difference is that this time it is gay porn being peddled to men, women and children in broad daylight. But the Red Pepper has victimized all sorts of people, mostly straight couples it must be admitted, with utterly scurrilous pornographic  images that should never have seen the light of day.

Imagine what is to become of the young man in the pictures! Even if this wasn’t Uganda where anything gay conjures up [wrong] images of marauding thugs breaking down doors to search for acts of sodomy, how can any editor ever have thought that there was any public interest in printing these images?

What on earth has this country come to?

Oh Uganda ….!!!!

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The Red Pepper gives up the ghost 1

The Red Pepper front page, February 2012

It was perhaps too much to hope that Uganda’s tabloid,  Red Pepper ,would change its spots. In the past 12 months or so, this tabloid seemed to have turned a new leaf, largely staying away from the sensational material that was its stock in yonder years when it routinely called for the hanging of gays in Uganda.  On two occasions, they even printed helpful articles on gay-related subjects, prompting me to wonder whether they had found their transformation on the road to Damascus.

As their front page shows, above, the accolades were premature. The Red Pepper has backslid and is back to its old ways. I don’t know either men in the picture. Needless to say, it is a gross violation of privacy to plaster their pictures on the front pages. That picture of the naked man is nothing if not libelous. The man in question is lying on a bed and there is no indication whatsoever what is going on beyond lying on the bed. So, it is difficult to see how the “sodomizing” headline came to be. If this man got a good lawyer, there is no doubt in my mind that this would be a simple libel case to win.

Oh well … you can’t take the Red Pepper out of the gutter.

Ethiopia to host Men Having Sex With Men Conference 1

Uganda’s Red Pepper has lifted yet another helpful article, this time from News from Africa, about a conference on MSM public health in African communities.

I know some of my gay brethren are still seeing (see the comment here) the Red Pepper through a different prism but I am beginning to think this glass might be turning ‘half full.’ For one, they didn’t have to mention the conference at all. Secondly, the tone is decidedly different from the screaming, incendiary, expletive-laden shrillness of yonder years.

Whatever is going on at the Red Pepper, one can’t deny that the last two reports on LGBT affairs have been markedly different, and positive, compared to only two years ago. Someone told me that the Red Pepper is trying to go ‘serious.’ Well, if this is the way it is trying to do it, AfroGay will salute it all the way.

We watch, we wait.

Red Pepper tamed?

It seems as though the Red Pepper has conceded defeat in the fight for Ugandan gays to live peacefully as gay men and women in their own country.

It’s perhaps a sign of the times when Uganda’s Red Pepper lifts entire contents of writing from reputable  publications elsewhere when writing about gay issues.

The Red Pepper online article

The explanation for the very tame (by Red Pepper’s standards) article is either that they have mentally conceded that the fight against homosexuals is a lost one (and they have thrown in the towel on screaming about it) or the Red Pepper has intellectually grown up. Either way, their article on Frank Mugisha’s Human Rights Award signals a climb down of seismic proportions – in the decibel and tonal levels.

Yes, the headline is provocative but gone is the flowery, incendiary, screaming, language of just two years ago when the Red Pepper led the fight against homosexuals with Mikado-like lists of “bum shafters,” lurid descriptions of gay sex and promises not to rest until it achieved victory for the entire country. Look how two years changes things.

The fact that the Red Pepper printed what is, by any measure, a helpful article to the gay cause in Uganda is instructive. The fight to jail, hang or shoot gays by firing squad simply because they are gay is a futile one. Homosexuals are not going anywhere, cannot be eradicated from any society, have never been eradicated from any society, will not be eradicated from society as long as the earth still revolves on its axis. Why not then embrace that fact and move on? The Red Pepper seems to be embracing that spirit if their damp squib of a report is anything to go by.

David Bahati dear … listen … and learn.

Gay Wars Spill Over Into "Straight" Relationships

It’s not exactly the reference one would have liked to use but you have to take it from wherever you can get it (no pun intended).

Uganda’s Red Pepper has an interesting story about an alleged almighty row that has broken out between the Democratic Party’s Fred Mukasa Mbidde and his girlfriend. It needs to be clarified that as far as AfroGay knows, the DP personality is called Dennis Mukasa Mbidde but let that not take away from the story itself. The Red Pepper is notorious for getting its facts twisted, sometimes due to sloppiness but sometimes deliberately.

The short of it is that the Red Pepper claims that Mbidde’s girlfriend chose “The Legal Status of Homosexuality” for her law dissertation. An embarrassed Mbidde demanded that she changes the topic of her study. She refused. He then tried to have her examined for bisexuality (how on earth would this be examined?). She refused to go for the examination Mbidde demanded, and asked him to mind his own business. He refused to pay for her research. She opted to pay for it herself and will complete it in a few weeks.

One hopes that Mbidde is not so foolish as to think he has any future with this girl. She knows her mind too well, is clearly independent and determined. She certainly is not the kind of subservient doormat Mbidde seems to be looking for in his woman. Take it from this gay man, Mr. Mbidde … you have no future with this woman. She is too intelligent for you.

By coincidence, a certain Dennis Mbidde has been in the news lately, confirming in the Weekly Observer what most of us knew already, namely that homosexuality is rife in Ugandan soccer circles. But more curious perhaps was his attempt to differentiate between homo-sodomy (which both gay and straight people can practice) and homosexuality (which refers only to homosexual persons). Mbidde is clearly not ignorant about the darker sex habits of some of his straight counterparts. Take the trouble and read up on Dennis Mbidde’s extrapolation of the bubbling homosexual activity in Ugandan football.

Boys, if you are looking for some steamy same-sex action … you had better hang around Uganda’s soccer locker rooms.

Hm …

Related Reading:

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Pastor Kayanja Seen By Some as a Christ-like Figure!! 9

Once you hold your nose and block out the stench emanating from its pages, Uganda’s Red Pepper can make for interesting reading: The alleged affidavit by one of Pastor Kayanja’s homo-sodomy accusers makes for some curious revelations about the minds of those who attend these humongous cult-like churches:

Money Quote:

That late in the night, I was awakened from deep sleep to discover pastor Kayanja caressing me like he would a woman, which compelled me to quit bed in great discomfort, leaving him with Kenneth in there. However, when out of bed and alone, I wondered whether I hadn’t missed an opportunity to be greatly blessed and anointed by a ‘great man of’ God.

I am not sure whether to laugh or cry at this remark. The complainant seems to be suggesting that he withdrew from Kayanja’s advances “in discomfort” but then retrospectively regretted not allowing Kayanja to have his way with him because of the blessings he would have received.

Did/does Kayanja really have such control over people’s minds? Do/did some people really see these pastors as Christ-like figures? What on earth possesses people to lose themselves when they attend these larger-than-life megalomaniacal churches? Is this naivete, foolishness, ignorance, overawe, madness, or ‘all the above?’

I had to pinch myself when I read this, though I don’t see why it should come as a terribly big surprise when one thinks about it. The young boys see the pastors as demi-gods and acquiesce for the most part. It is usually after the fact they get the guilty feelings about what they have done, and then they rush to Martin Ssempa who is desperate to make a name for himself, as well as money from his American right wing religious fundamentalist bankrollers. Ugandans still see priests and pastors as ‘holy’ and obviously that is a situation that can lead many into activities whose implications they might not exactly understand.

That is why focus needs to be placed on how old these boys were when the alleged acts took place. If they were above 18, there is no case to answer. If they were underage, then the crime is pedophilia. But in situations of he said/she said, who is going to prove that the alleged homo-sodomy actually took place? Or should we just take the word of Martin Ssempa and these young men who are clearly impressionable and could very well be enamored with Ssempa’s own aura of charisma?

The situation seems too murky for any prosecutable case to be brought. But, when all is said and done, AfroGay is rather thankful about all these headlines. No publicity is negative publicity, and if the masses hear enough about this subject, some of the stigma surrounding homosexuality will be blunted. Yes, the word ‘gay’ could come to be used by detractors to discredit and ruin (and we know that it is indeed being used that way) but the silence surrounding our lives (not lifestyles as Gwen Richardson put it) was deafening. Even if the coverage of the subject is puerile at best, in a country where the level of ignorance is where it is at in Uganda, it must be better to be talked about badly than not to be talked about at all.

A Message to My [African] Family 7

Stanley Benett Clay has a message that every African gay man should read, take to heart and pass around. Clay might as well have had Martin Ssempa, The Red Pepper, Stephen Langa and Mary Karooro-Okurut in mind when he wrote this.

Money excerpts:

God birthed me black, left-handed, artistic and gay; four things that the majority population rejected. Well, I reject your rejection. God made me special and you don’t get it.

The majority said that I’m inferior because I am black, that blacks are supposed to be slaves, are supposed to be inferior. I reject that. God made me special and you don’t get it.

The majority said, three hundred years ago, that left-handed people were demonic, and should be burned at the stake, and they were.

Thirty years ago, parents were forcing right-handed behavior on God-given left-handed nature. God made me special and you don’t get it. …

The constitution clearly states that the minority should be protected against the tyranny of the majority.

Your churches have every right to practice the beliefs they believe. That is a civil right guaranteed by the government. But that should not intrude on the civil rights of others.

Every [one] is guaranteed the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Where are those pursuits for same gender-loving (SGL) people?

The same Bible that condemns same sax relationships, also condemns a slave’s disobedience to his master, a woman’s menstrual cycle, the mixing of cloths, and praises Lot for giving up his daughters to sexual gangbanging in order to spare two male strangers from being sexed by both men and women.

We are many God-created things. If we don’t understand and respect that, then we have a total misunderstanding and disrespect for who we are and who we’re supposed to be as God’s perfect imperfect children.

Questions, Questions … The Red Pepper Persists 2

Kenyan Gay Man clearly had a point. If you look at the e-mail below, the editor of the Red Pepper has valid questions he is asking and, ordinarily, I would answer them – indeed I have answered these questions over the years more times than I have had hot dinners.

The problem for me now is I don’t believe the people asking the questions are sincere. Rightly or wrongly, I think all they are looking for is material to feed their tabloid frenzy and so I have refused to provide the answers. That said, I think it would be okay for other bloggers to attempt to answer them on their blogs or wherever as they are legitimate.

Here is the e-mail I got from the Red Pepper and the questions they posed [heavily emended for clarity]:

Thanks for the reply.

Well, you have not answered Phiona’s question and I am sure she will maintain her opinion. I also have a feeling that you don’t have an answer for it. The times I have interacted with you I have discovered that you are a clever man who cannot answer a question unless you are sure the answer is convincing.Again I tend to disagree with you when you say that homos have never done anybody physical, emotional or spiritual harm.

Without any prejudice I want to tell you that they are guilty of all the three accounts.

Count 1. If you try to drink water through the ear, you naturally spoil it because it was created by God to do the hearing function.That’s physical harm.

Count 2. You said on your blog how your family was disturbed [I didn't say anything about my family on my blog, but point taken] when they discovered you were gay (Victoria also says it on her sight that her family did all they could to stop her from being unnatural but that she overpowered them. She therefore caused then emotional harm.)

You know very well how we love having grandchildren in Africa. Imagine what goes on in your parents’ minds to know that you will never give them grandchildren (I am assuming that you a die-hard gay man but if you are bi, please forgive me). Vicky’s people also must be having the same feeling because though she desperately wants to be a man, that can only be may be in the second world. (I don’t know how effective the technology of gender changing is). At least Vicky is bolder than you and she has put her picture on her blog and in the newspapers. But for you seem to be conscious of the fact that what you are doing may not be right. So that is emotional harm.

3. Spiritual harm. You tamper with God’s plan of procreation. Understand that the main reason of creating the sexual organs was procreation purposes. For you in an attempt to be very creative, you put your organs at the disposal of pleasure only (I hope it is fun).If you have radical parents, they can start questioning God as to why he gave them such a child. I know parents of a gay boy who visited scores of witchdoctors thinking that their child had been bewitched.I can give you as many reasons as possible. I hope you are an objective gentleman who looks at things objectively.

One last example,if somebody eats a body of a person who has died and has been buried away deep in the soil, such a person is condemned by society and can be chased away from the village or arrested. Would argue that the relatives of the dead person should have left him in the house if they loved him/her so much and never wanted him eaten up and the scavenging cannibal is innocent? Society wouldn’t look at things that way. That’s why many people can’t understand homos. The things they do are unnatural and you know it.

But anyway, everyone have their weaknesses like over-drinking,over-smoking, prostitution and these day’s shoplifting as a hobby and not because of need. That, it is argued, is what being human is about. But then it becomes absurd when the owner of the weakness tries to defend it as a good thing and that they should be left alone to pursue their weird ways.

All the best.

Editor