The general secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, has said the party will not support the activities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) in the country.
Speaking at the party’s delegate conference at Kyebi in the Eastern Region, Boadu said the traditions of the NPP do not support LGBTQ+.
“Center-left political parties throughout the world – in the U.S …when they come to power… promote such practice.
“So don’t ask us whether we accept LGBTQI or not; we are not supposed to be asked that question. The right people to ask that question are NDC members because they are Center-Left political party,” he said.
The bill “is problematic”
Meanwhile, Mahama Ayariga, a member of Parliament’s constitutional, legal and parliamentary affairs committee, has said that the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 needs to be looked at again because “there are a number of issues” with it.
This comes after a group of 18 prominent Ghanaian citizens rejected the bill, saying it constitutes an “impermissible invasion of the inviolability and human dignity” of the LGBTQI community.
Ayariga, who called in to The Asaase Breakfast Show on Thursday (7 October) to express his views on the topic, said portions of the anti-gay bill should be revised.
“Definitely there are a number of issues that need to be flagged: academic freedom, the professors have raised it,” the MP for Bawku Central said.
Ayariga added: “It is so fundamental that our constitution has gone out of its way to guarantee the set-up for academic freedom, and that is one issue that we need to respond to and respond to properly as a committee.
“People have [also] raised rights to health care and how a bill like that will go a long way to undermine access to health care by people in the gay and lesbian community.”
Fred Dzakpata
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