In Cameroon homosexuality is a criminal offence. Britain now has decided that British aid to Third World countries will be slashed if they persecuted gays.
Cameroon is at risk of losing dozen of millions of pounds of taxpayers cash for the development and improvement of his justice system and its independence, because it has been funded by the British government under a cooperation program.
David Cameron made the announcement during a meeting last week in Perth with leaders of the Commonwealth. Cameron`s position is that if no reforms are made to the constitution in order to respect people freedom of choice and human rights then no aid to be sent to the country.
The Prime Minister said taxpayers`cash would only be handed out with strings attached in future. The move will help according to some political analysts, to appease Tory backbenchers angry that foreign aid is going up as public services are facing cuts.
In some African countries, homosexuality is a criminal offence. Many gays around African countries members of the Commonwealth where homosexuality is a criminal offence are being persecuted, then prosecuted and jailed under unfair trail and some even killed or burnt alive by a bunch of so called anti-gays criminals.
In Cameroon homosexuality is a criminal offence and punished by the law.
The country still using an old legislation inherited from the French and had never ever decided to bring a real change in that law while in France the same law has been improved and new ideas have been brought in.
In France with the same law, gay men are allowed to live their live as everybody else and enjoy their life, while in Cameroon they are being persecuted and prosecuted. The English speaking Cameroon side of the country now might have the opportunity to push forward their French fellow compatriots to rewrite that law in order to keep their relationship and ties with Britain.
The Prime Minister David Cameron said he hoped that withholding financial help would encourage governments to look at ways to bring a real change in their constitution in order to allow people to express their feeling and also to respect the Human rights.
Alice Nkom a female attorney took the lead long time ago in Cameroon to fight and challenge the law in order to protect the rights of the gay men accused by the government of being in breach of the law. Alice Nkom is pushing for a change of the law that will enable gay men in Cameroon to enjoy their life as millions like them around the world do. She successfully won a legal battle against the government will of keeping in prison 17 gay man accused of breaking the law by practising the homosexuality.
Recently she launched a Facebook campaign to raise the awareness of the brutality of the behaviour that the government in Cameroon was using to intimidate gay men and also to crack down their activities around the country to the International community. She is looking for a support in order to bring that real change needed in Cameroon in order to change the law.
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