The Uganda centre for law and transformation has called for harsher penalties for big offenders who deal in pornography.

The organization says that the current penalties are too lenient to stop the vice. The bill currently proposes a fine of 10 million shillings or 10 years in jail for a maximum penalty.

But the Board chairman for the centre Charles Tuhaise has told the committee on legal and parliamentary affairs currently scrutinizing the bill that the fine for corporate offence be increased from 10 million shillings to 150 million shillings.

He says that the corporate companies whose business involves pornography make a lot of money out of this business.

The movers of the anti-pornography bill argue that there has been an increase in pornographic materials in the Ugandan mass media and nude dancing in the entertainment world.