Police on Tuesday arrested and detained at least 33 people suspected to be homosexuals while attending a workshop at Sangalo Beach in Busia District.
These people who are mostly youth were speaking Kinywarwanda, Swahili and English prompting authorities to question their citizenship.
According to police most of them admitted to be Rwandans while others are Congolese and a few Ugandans.
The group which later confirmed to have been attending a transgender conference, was supervised by a lady only identified as Beyonce who attempted to offer police a bribe of shs 10 million to be released.
Ms Beyonce and her team were apprehended following a tip by URA officials who were alarmed by the behaviors of these youth during a lunch break at the beach.
“The boys started behaving like women. They were all over each other caressing fellow men,” said a URA officials who asked not to be named.
He added that the group had only two pairs of ladies but two of them were also reacting like men.
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Imagine a boy telling a fellow boy that your face looks good. In fact, during the lunch break they started coupling. That raised our suspicion,” he further said.
These officials contacted Majanji police station to which group’s supervisor offered money.
“The lady heading the group was giving Majanji OC 10 million,” our source said.
This prompted URA officers to alert Busia main police station and the OC Patrick Lule swung in action and arrested the whole group.
Speaking on phone to this website on Wednesday morning, Mr. Lule confirmed that he has in custody 33 men and women including their supervisor Ms Beyonce.
Asked the charges opened against them, Lule said the case will be illegal assembly until the state prosecutor advises otherwise.
By the time of filing this report, two of their lawyers had arrived at Busia police station to secure police bond.
Lule further said that as they were interrogated the suspects admitted being gay and were attending a transgender workshop.
“That some men wanted to be women. They also told us that they are registered NGO operating from Kireka in Kampala,” Lule said.
TrumpetNews is closely following up the matter and will bring you more updates.
