Your agenda is to get Ghana blacklisted for promoting hate – Gabby to LGBTQI+ Bill promoters
Direct cousin to President Akufo-Addo Gabby Otchere-Darko has also waded into the ongoing LGBTQI+ Bill debate that has been trending for the past weeks.
In his response to the heightened debate, Gabby tweeted;
Gay+ activities are already illegal in our country. But, we aren’t known to hate. The President has given his word he won’t legalise it. This Bill only serves one purpose: to get Ghana blacklisted for promoting hate! Surely, the promoters of the Bill can’t say they aren’t aware!
Gay+ activities are already illegal in our country. But, we aren’t known to hate. The President has given his word he won’t legalise it. This Bill only serves one purpose: to get Ghana blacklisted for promoting hate! Surely, the promoters of the Bill can’t say they aren’t aware!
— Gabby Otchere-Darko (@GabbyDarko) July 25, 2021
The debate on LGBTQI+ was awaken early last week when Parliament proposed a bill dubbed Proper Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 to criminalize LGBTQI+ in Ghana. Sections of the bill states strict rules to forbid the presence of its practice in the country.
Some sections of the bill received by Accra Mail reads;
Prohibition of all LGBTQI+ activities in the country:
Section 6 of the bill states that anyone who engages in sexual intercourse with same sex “commit second degree felony and will be liable on summary conviction…to a term of not less than three(3) years and not more than five(5) years or both.”
Prohibition of any form of promotion of the act
In Section 12 of the Proper Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021, “anybody who uses media, technological platform, technological account or any other means, produce, procure, market, broadcast, disseminate, publish or distribute material for purposes of promoting activity prohibited under this Bill, or a person who uses internet… commit offence and be liable on summary conviction to a term of imprisonment of not less than five(5) years and not more than ten(10) years.”
Prohibition of funding or sponsorship of LGBTQI+ activities in the country
The bill’s Section14 also states whoever funds or sponsors LGBTQI+ activities commit offence, and be liable on summary conviction to a term of imprisonment of not less than five(5) years and not more than ten(10) years.”
Section 15 of the bill also disband any group, association, club or organization which may exist before the passing of this bill into an Act of Parliament.
Meanwhile the LGBT+ Community in Ghana have also responsed in a tweet saying;
The anti LGBT Bill in Ghana will closes civil space,increase human rights abuse,criminalizes the existence of people,destroy families,forester fear and unnecessary work for the police, prisons and creates jobs for blackmailers just as it did here in Nigeria. SAD.@LGBTRightsGhana
— LGBT Rights Nigeria. (@LgbtRightsNg) July 23, 2021
Source: Accramail.com
