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Mob attacks gay ‘wedding’ party
Mtwapa police boss K.K.Mutegi rescues a man from an angry mob after they attempted to attack him claiming he was gay. Photo/LABAN WALLOGA
Posted Friday, February 12 2010 at 15:45
In Summary
- Couple flees but five others rescued as youths gather to stop nuptials
Kenya’s would-be first gay wedding was violently stopped by protesting youths and police on Friday at Mtwapa near Mombasa, hours before it was due to take place.
Police intervened as dozens of Christian and Muslim youth stormed the apartment where three men — including the gay couple — had been putting up, intent on flushing them out to stop the wedding.
They arrested five suspected homosexuals, including two who were rescued from youths baying for their blood but the local police chief later said no charges would be preferred.
“I sent Mtwapa OCS to rescue them from angry residents baying for their blood because they were trying to conduct that marriage between men,” said Kilifi police chief Grace Kakai.
The wedding between two men had been scheduled to take place at a private villa. But the protesting youth, banded together under the banner of the so-called Operation Gays Out, were not done yet.
They went to the Kenya Medical Research Institute at Mtwapa claiming the institute was harbouring yet another gay man.
The local station commander and a contingent of police officers calmed the angry youth who were preparing to storm the institute.
Guards at Kemri refused to open the gate, fearing for their lives.
Women yelled
Women who were among protesting locals, yelled at the top of their voices and called for an operation to flush out lesbians also claimed to be living among locals.
“God created men to provide sexual pleasure to us (women). What will happen now that they have turned to each other? Who will marry our daughters,” shouted a woman.
A frightened Kemri employee told reporters that the centre was conducting an international science research project but she declined to elaborate.
“This is international research project but wait for the head of the project to give you more information,” she said.
Religious leaders said the project should be terminated.
The research centre was opened by Dr Seth Berkley, President of International Aids Vaccine Centre on 27 March 2007.
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Submitted by stepheinPosted February 15, 2010 09:05 PM
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Submitted by Masakhalia2030
POLICE - keep up the good job. continue enforcing and safeguarding our constitution and arrest all of those law breakers. Remind them that Gaysim remain MOST illegal here
Posted February 14, 2010 02:56 PM -
Submitted by victoriaskipper
It came as no surprise that the wedding between to men were stopped. Kenya is - at least in theory - a conservative nation. However, the ball has started to roll, and it cannot be stopped. Those who says homosexuality does not exist in Africa, are so wrong. It has actually been thriving through ages, and still is. thrivinis actually thriving
Posted February 14, 2010 11:27 AM -
Submitted by Joesmatt
Most of the comments have read come from gays and their sympathizers.Lets be honest about human rights, moral values, beliefs, cultures,freedom and laws. Hell is the only place where maybe they allow gay thing. We need to pass laws like Ugandans where gays or homos are hanged together with their sympathizers.we need our law makers to criminalize gays operations in Kenya.
Posted February 14, 2010 11:05 AM -
Submitted by Utuwema
Since I became a christian I have known that judgement belongs only to God. Law abiding citizens who love each other and wish to spend their lives together should not be denied this right. Their crime? loving one another, how absurd. Christians should know better; and for the rest of kenyans, just sit back and be ignorant as you watch your freedom is taken away and sharia law is imposed upon you.
Posted February 14, 2010 10:59 AM
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