David Kato is Demonized at Sentencing of his Murderer

“This is the time Nsubuga told the deceased that he wanted to ease himself in the bathroom after which he would come back and have sex, “according to the Ugandan Monitor and the Prosecutor continued:- “While in the bathroom, Nsubuga picked up a hammer, came back to the living room and hit the deceased on the back of the head twice.”

Prosecutor Karungi says that Nsubuga then dragged the deceased to the bedroom where he started picking items from the deceased’s bag. The items picked included a camera, keyboard for a computer, T.shirts, shoes and a mobile phone. He opened the door, got out, and locked the door from outside. He then threw the keys in the gumboots that were outside.”

The Uganda Monitor continues its report:-

Kato’s death was condemned strongly by the gay, lesbian, transgender international community, local activists, as well as President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton, who called upon the government to investigate the cause of his death and speak out against homophobia towards the gay community in the country.

While the police issued a statement to the effect that Kato’s killing was no way related to his campaign for gay rights, many of us believe this entire story to be a cover up of the actual facts and events leading up to Kato’s brutal murder.

It is apparent that most members of the Ugandan government and officials support the David Bahati Anti-homosexuality Bill. David Kato was a vocal and out critic.  He was seen as a critical key to the international community’s drive  against the Bill.  Hence it was in Uganda’s interests to ensure his demise.

With the Anti-Homosexuality bill still lingering in Uganda’s Parliament, the Court, albeit independent, has been used as a tool to superficially meter out justice while  at the same time slandering the victim. This serves to justify the governments assertions about homosexuality.

The Ugandan government has failed to render a version of the events that makes any sense at all. On the one hand, given the context of anti-gay fervor in Uganda the story uses homosexual sex to imply that Kato’s homosexuality had something to do with his death, yet it refuses to consider that maybe it had nothing to do with sex and everything to do with a vendetta against Kato for his pro gay rights activism. This version is nothing more than the abuse of a dead hero and a means to detract from the truth about the murder.

The language used and description inserts a so called “demand for sex” as a concomitant leading to the murderer’s actions. Clearly the murderer could have left the scene and he did not. The fact that the killer had just een released from prison prior to killing Kato and that his bail had been paid by Kato, makes no sense at all.

A source has revealed to me that Kato paid the bail because he believed that the killer had been arrested for homosexual activities. I have no verification of this; however if that is the case, then perhaps Kato was set up to think that this man was a homosexual who he was helping.  The man was then planted to kill Kato, who had taken him into his home with trust!  David was scared and was watching his back.  This set up may have been a mechanism to get his guard down.   I doubt he would have been making sexual advances to unknown straight men.

My dear friend and brother David Kato, will not be forgotten and nor remembered in the way that anti-gay forces in Uganda would have us believe. If anyone knew David, he was not a man who would have demanded sex from anyone.

Nothing will stop us from remembering the real David Kato; the fervent activist who fought with courage that knowing his life was at great risk. David Kato died for his cause.