The Founder and Director of LGBTQ+ Right – Ghana, Alex Kofi Donkor says criminalizing LGBT persons will not bring any significant change to the country.
After remarks made by US Vice President Kamala Harris asserting that the LGBTQ+ debate is a human rights issue, Sam George, a leading sponsor of the Appropriate Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, has accused the US government of being disingenuous.
Gay rights were referred to as human rights that are inalienable by the US Vice President, who is now in Ghana for a news conference.
In an interview the media, Ningo-Prampram, a member of parliament and the bill's sponsor, termed the US government's attempt to force gay rights on Ghana a bluff.
The MP claims that the economic catastrophe that the Nana Addo administration has thrown the nation into has given the Americans the incentive to exert pressure on the government until it caves.
Speaking to the media, the activist said that, contrary to what they are promoting, the LGBT bill's backers have nothing to do with family values.
“What are the family values that you want to criminalize me? What is it? They are just using words around to just divide us unnecessarily, the very person who is saying that what is it about him that is more family value than me so much so that he wants to criminalize me for what? What will be the change, what is the significant change if you criminalize me?” he asked.
“I am a Ghanaian that also plays my role as a researcher, I pay my taxes every month, MoMo charges and everything Ghanaians do that really makes a person Ghanaian I am doing that. Yet somebody sitting somewhere because he has gotten an opportunity to be an MP he is subjecting other Ghanaians to disrepute and we allow that to happen,” Mr. Donkor stated.
He continued: “Just recently Uganda passed the bill. What is the significant change that has happened in Uganda so much that Ghana wants to replicate it? Do we want to compare our progress to Uganda? I am sorry. Come on, let’s be serious, these people are just dividing us unnecessarily for their own parochial interest.”
According to him, there is nothing threatening the Ghanaian family.
“We are all part of Ghana and we are all Ghana. No one is more Ghanaian than the other. Let’s stop this,” he concluded.
