Hundreds of residents in Mombasa, Eldoret and Lamu on Friday took to the streets protesting against the LGBTQIA community in the country.
In Mombasa, residents led by Muslim and Christian religious leaders, matched from the different mosques and converged at the Makadara ground where they sang anti-gay slogans.
They then marched to Uhuru na Kazi building where they demanded an audience with the county commissioner.
In Eldoret, Muslims poured 0nto the streets with banners bearing writings opposing a recent Supreme Court ruling that allowed LGBTQIA members to form associations terming it an attempt to legalise lesbianism and gayism.
They were led by the chairman of the Imams in the region Abubakar Bini and Imam Abdiaziz Muhammed.
"We are completely opposed to any attempts to introduce such behaviour in the country. That is immoral and goes against our culture and traditions," Bini said.
In Mombasa, it was the first time Muslim women in their black veils and ninja face covers were seen matching in the streets denouncing social vices.
Salim Karama, the founder of the Anti-LGBTQ Movement, the organisation behind the anti-gay protests, said Kenya is becoming a puppet of the West.
“These satanic cultures have been brought to us by the West. They want to bring their wicked culture to us with loads of money to boot. But we don’t want their money and we don’t want their cultures,” Karama said.
“Anti-Christ has come into Kenya and wants to destroy future generations.”
The founder said the anti-gay campaign will be spread throughout the East and Central African region.
Karama matched the streets with his two daughters saying it is a lesson to them that homosexuality is not acceptable.
“I fear for their future because this thing is being spread in schools in the name of lessons,” Karama said.
The protestors called for the closure of all gay clubs in Mombasa, threatening to storm them or burn them down if their demand is not met.
Karama said they have a list of all NGOs that support homosexuality and the gay community and they will soon take legal against them.
“The government should take the stand taken by the majority of Kenyans and stop this culture by using all means necessary,” Karama said.
Reverend Cosmus Nyangweso of the Mombasa Pastors Fellowship said that African culture and all religions do not allow homosexuality.
“Even if our leaders have received money to allow homosexuality in the country, we stand with God and what God teaches us. It will not be allowed to happen,” Reverend Nyangweso said.
The reverend said Kenya will remain an upright country and will not be forced into cultures that displease God.
“Even if it is being shoved down our throats, we will vomit it and not allow it to defile us,” he said.
Shariffa Kassim Mwamzandi said homosexuality has broken many marriages and this should be stopped.
“We will not be forced to have our husbands going for other men. We, as wives, will remain loving to our husbands, who are male. We cannot have a woman as a husband or a man as a wife,” Mwamzandi said.
The social activist alleged that the US is responsible for most of the cultural deceptions that Kenya is being forced to accept.
“We are telling President Ruto to resist these attempts. Money will be our destruction,” said Mwamzandi.
At the Uhuru na Kazi building, the Muslim women chanted slogans denouncing US President Joe Biden accusing him of being behind the LGBTQIA promotion in Kenya.
“Joe Biden, don’t force LGBTQIA in Kenya. Leave our children alone!” they chanted.
Khadija Raj, a peer counselor, said there should be a solution to this problem.
“When we speak of an ill without coming up with solutions, we are not helping the society,” Raj said.
Heavy sentences should be passed to the promoters of homosexuality, she noted.
She said homosexuality involves at least two people thus both people, should be condemned.
“It is not only that one who is being made the wife that should be condemned. Even the husband or the man in the relationship should be condemned,” Raj said.
Mijikenda Community chairman Vincent Mwachiro said the African culture only recognises relationships between people of the opposite gender.
Mwachiro said Kenyan should follow Uganda’s example and take stern action against gays.
“These are not our ways. They are just being brought by the West,” Mwachiro said.
He said the anti-gay movement must start from schools where children are increasingly being introduced into this vice.
