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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) parliamentary caucus has resolved \u201cto send back the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023 to parliament with proposals for improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Thursday, government chief whip Denis Hamson Obua said President Museveni agreed with NRM legislators- to sign the Bill into law after the improvements anticipated to make it tougher.<\/p>\n

“Before that is done, we also agree that the Bill will be returned in order to facilitate the reinforcement and the strengthening of some provisions in line with our best practices,” Obua was quoted by news agency Reuters<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The resolution was reached following Mr Museveni’s keynote address to the NRM parliamentary caucus on the controversial legislation passed by Parliament on March 21.<\/p>\n

NRM party says the April 20 decision came after \u201cexhaustively examining all related issues and reviewing previous discussions on the subject.\u201d<\/p>\n

A brief statement shared on Twitter by NRM’s Communications director Emmanuel Dombo suggested that caucus\u2019 \u201cadvise\u201d to the president involved an undisclosed number of independent lawmakers working with the party.<\/p>\n

At least 389 MPs, mostly those belonging to NRM, attended in-person while about four-dozen others followed proceedings via Zoom as the House adopted the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2023 in March.<\/p>\n

By Thursday, the Bill was still awaiting President Museveni’s assent to become law.<\/p>\n

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