Kenya’s Republican Liberty Party has informed the police of its intention to mobilize 5,000 men and women for a nude protest against President Barack Obama’s “aggressive support for homosexuality”, next week.
Scheduled to hold on July 22 and 23, to coincide with the US president’s visit to Kenya, the party said it had already notified the authorities about the protest.
The party’s leader Vincent Kidala, wrote to the Police on Monday notifying the authorities of the planned protest march from Nairobi’s Freedom Corner to the streets of the capital.
He said the protest would involve “totally naked men and women” to “demonstrate the difference between men and women."
At least 1,000 commercial sex workers from Nairobi alone have confirmed their participation in the nude protest march and the party is making efforts to mobilize politicians to join the march.
“Homosexuality is not new to the party,” Kidala said, adding that, “we forwarded a Bill to Parliament in 2013 seeking to ban same sex marriages but we have not received any notification of progress. There is a lot of interference from the US government on this issue "
A White House Spokesperson, Joshua Earnest, said last week the US President planned to address the issue of gay rights and the need to protect gay rights during his visit to Kenya.
Kenyan religious leaders however, have stepped up a campaign to urge Obama to drop the gay rights subject matter.
“We shall say to the US perish with your dollars, African traditional religion never recognized homosexuality. Homosexuality was never part of this continent,” one religious leader said.
Speaker of Parliament, Justin Muturi, has said the parliament would respond to “advances perceived to encroach on our social fabric.”
However, the Kenyan Presidency said the U.S. President was at full liberty to champion the gay rights in respect to the US Supreme Court ruling.
Obama is due in Kenya on July 24 to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES).
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