Police conducted another wave of arrests after the Anti-Homosexuality Act was officially published in the law gazette on March 10. On March 13, police arrested Maria W., a transgender asylum seeker, after neighbors reported her to police as a “homosexual.”
Historia ya sheria hiyo ya uchawi ya tangu mwaka 1922, ina mizizi yake tangu mwaka 1919 pale Wakoloni wa Kiingereza walipotoa sekula Na. 15 ya Aprili 4, mwaka 1919 kwa mtazamo wa kisheria haikuwa busara kufanya vitendo vinavyodhaniwa kuwa vya kichawi viwe kosa la jinai kwa kuwa itakuwa ni kukubali kuwa uchawi ni kitu halisi.