A coalition of parents has commended President Yoweri Museveni and his government for standing firm amid increasing pressure from the World Bank to twist African society's morals.

“As parents, we wish to acknowledge the President for taking the brave and significant step in affirming what we stand for as a country despite threats to cut aid,” Eng. Stephen Langa, the executive director of Family Life Network.

Langa made these remarks on Thursday at Hotel Triangle in Kampala, during a parental national response to the threat by the international community on the issue of deviant sexual behavior.

The Executive Director of Family Life network, Stephen Langa (left) looks as the National chairperson of Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC), Kenyangi Sofia Safina speaks during a press conference

Family Life Network (FLN) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in Kampala that is committed to the restoration of family values and morals.

The NGO offers counseling services for families, and teenagers, premarital counseling, and sensitization talks for youths and parents including virtual and corporate counseling.

According to Langa, the NGO in collaboration with its partners such as the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) has called upon parents, well-wishers, government, and organizations in Africa and beyond who cherish family, moral, cultural, and religious values “to rise and take a stand against this evil destructive vice” which they say is disguised as human rights.

This comes in the wake of the World Bank's recent announcement this August that it will halt new loans to Uganda over the enactment of an Anti-gay law.  

The National chairperson of Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC), Kenyangi Sofia Safina (left) listens to the father representative in Family Life Network, Robert Ndyobarema during a press conference

Other speakers included; Sofia Safina Kenyangi, chairperson of the women from Uganda Muslim Supreme Council which is a member of IRCU who spoke on behalf of mothers and women, FLN’s Robert Ndyabarema represented the fathers while the youths were represented by two speakers namely; Emmanuel Opolot and Atim Anjuleta Ataro who spoke on behalf of all daughters and girls (aspiring mothers).

“We applaud the leadership they displayed and the tough and necessary action they took to safeguard our children, our families, and the moral fibre of our nation,” Kenyangi explained, referring to parliament’s “heroic stand and action they took in enacting the Bill with an overwhelming majority.”