Uganda’s security minister has called LGBT+ people “terrorists” in an eviscerating attack against a presidential hopeful and his supporters.

The country’s current president, Yoweri Museveni, has ruled the African republic for decades but his government faces fervent opposition from the People Power, Our Power group.

Helmed by singer and presidential candidate Bobi Wine, the resistance movement aims to bring an end to Museveni’s administration as the 2021 elections loom in the distance.

On October 3, Ugandan Minister of Security Elly Tumwine spoke to NBS TV and openly slammed the movement, declaring it a “terrorist organisation” with links to cryptocurrency.

But the politician saved his most sharpest thorn for when he said the group “associates” with LGBT+ people, a damning statement in a country where being gay is punishable with life imprisonment.

“I want to warn the public that there is a threat to the world called the Red Movement [People Power],” he said on NBS TV Morning Freeze.

“It is a terrorist organisation.”

He continued: “It is associated with LGBT and cryptocurrency and things that want to break the established order of things.”