African Legislators have adopted new model principles to guarantee the protection of sovereignty, culture and family values.
After the first biennial African Inter-parliamentary Conference on Family Values and Sovereignty in Entebbe last week, legislators and speakers from 23 African states collectively approved the adoption of the principles.
The principles will provide a standard foundation to draft new and comprehensive laws on family values, child protection, African culture, and norms.
Furthermore, the principles are conceived to enable respect of the continent’s legislative sovereignty from donor countries.
“International institutions and donor countries have always provided aid to address the multi-faceted needs of our countries, yet this support often has been conditioned on requirements to implement policies and programs which directly undermine our national sovereignty as well as African culture and family values,” said Tororo Woman MP, Sarah Opendi
Opendi also contends that non-African values imposed by the west and international bodies have no place on the continent. “If it is (LGBTQIA+) not African, then it’s not one of those things we are going to promote, we want to ensure that we maintain our African values,”
Kenyan MP, George Peter Kaluma revealed that their parliament is already working on a comprehensive law to promote Family protection.
“We are proposing a family protection act in Kenya which will deal with so many issues that have been elaborated in this conference,” Kaluma said.
The conference was organized by the Parliamentary Forum on Family in partnership with the African Bar Association and the Foundation for African Cultural Heritage.
The conference was attended by African legislators, Speakers, Religious Leaders, experts, academicians and legal minds.
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