Harriet Ntabazi
Ugandan politician
Harriet Ntabazi (born 11 December 1974) is a Ugandan politician. She is the current Minister of State for Trade at the Ministry of Trade industry and Cooperatives. Between 2011 and 2016, she served as the Women's Representative for Bundibugyo in the Parliament of Uganda.
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edit- The team was given powers to deliver the message of President Museveni, but of course, they will not push us to the wall because the President has been passionate about homosexuality and you can’t change his mind because that is the voice of Ugandans. Ugandans are saying, you can’t go homosexual and the President can’t come up and break that law because he is part of Ugandans. He is one of the indigenous Ugandans who have shaped it to what it is now,”
- So, what we are waiting for is the US to understand that trade is different from human rights, these are quite divergent matters and the challenge we have is that the US doesn’t want us to add any value on anything. But of course, they brought in other issues to do with security, violation of human rights and they assumed as if Uganda is on fire and there is going to be a coup, there is no coup that is going to be in Uganda,”
- Uganda will abandon the US market if its participation is hinged on condition that the country accepts homosexuality, arguing that Uganda already has enough markets to sell its products.
