Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, this week lashed out at western countries for criticizing Uganda's parliament after it approved a bill that is likely to have a negative impact on the rights of the LGBTQI community. Speaking during his State visit to South Africa on Wednesday, Museveni also defended his country's decision to close the United Nations human rights office saying  they had developed their own capacity to monitor rights compliance. He was adamant that the West cannot dictate to Uganda on how it should handle issues related to culture and religion.

That was Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni speaking in Pretoria earlier this week.To get the perspective of the affected community we spoke to Richard Lusimbo, Director General at Uganda Key Populations Consortium and LGBTQI and Human Rights activist.