LGBTQ Community Roasts CS Magoha Over Directive on Gay Learners

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The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community in Kenya has taken to Nairobi streets on Thursday, January 13, to protest the directive by Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) George Magoha that all gay students should be banned from boarding schools.

The Community told off the CS for profiling the students based on their sexual inclination. Magoha had stated that the students with ‘abnormal’ sexual orientation should learn in schools near their homes.

“Right now, there are contemporary cases of children who are homosexual and lesbians. They must go to day-schools close to their homes. Your responsibility should be for the greater majority and not a few individuals. Do not allow yourself to be intimidated by children,” Prof Magoha said.

The LGBTQ community further insisted that they will continue to press on the Government to accept them as other citizens without facing oppression from society which is unwelcoming due to their sexual preferences.

“We have grown in a country that has pressed us. When we try to express ourselves, a system comes for us. We can no longer be silenced… Our children are going to be safe. We will do whatever it takes. If we must die, we will die so that the next generation can stay alive.

We will no longer stay in a system that takes advantage of queer people… Where a Cabinet Secretary can come up with a directive that sexualizes children. They are supposed to be protected and not sexualized,” a woman leading the protests said.

“No more violence! Queer rights are human rights! We will no longer be silenced! Queer people, lesbians, gays, transgender people exist in Kenya,” the protesters chanted.

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