Apostle Dr. Alfred Koduah, a former General Secretary of the Church of Pentecost, has called on the public to provide relevant inputs for fine-tuning the ‘Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values’ Bill presently before Parliament.
Some Members of Parliament supported the ‘Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021,’ a private member’s bill prohibiting LGBTQI activities.
The bill has sparked considerable debate, with many people expressing differing opinions regarding some of its features.
As a consequence, a number of well-known legal, academic, and civil society experts have signed a statement opposing the anti-gay legislation.
In the memorandum, they contend that the bill is an “impermissible invasion of the inviolability of human dignity.”
They further argued that pushing through the bill will be to challenge Ghana’s constitution and democracy.
However, in an interview, Apostle Dr. Koduah said that if the law is not approved, the nation would be in chaos.
“Those who have different views should present their memos so that those memos are used to fine-tune the proposed bill so that if there are certain words that have to be toned down, that is done, or maybe the prescribed sentences and the jail terms have to be increased or decreased. These are things we have to look at but to say that we don’t need a law of this nature, I disagree, and we will have a huge problem if we allow LGBTQI+ activities to go on. The whole country will be in a confused state.”
Apostle Dr. Alfred Koduah appealed with President Akufo-Addo to sign the bill as soon as it was passed in Parliament.
“I want to see the president appending his signature to this bill as soon as it is passed by Parliament because this is so dear to the heart of Ghanaians. If you look at Ghana from the political angle, you will see that the country is polarised which affects everything in this country but with this particular, there is unanimity.”
Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II, the Omanhene of the Dormaa Traditional Area and President of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs, has also joined the battle against the propagation of LGBTQI+ in Ghana.
Following communal labor, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyeman Badu II addressed the chiefs and people of Subinkrom in the Dormaa Traditional Area and condemned those who support LGBTQI activities.
“I am really sad with what I have heard. There are educated people in this country, but it seems they are going backward. Parliament is in the process of enacting a law to prevent a woman from marrying a woman and a man from marrying a man, but there are some people who are against it.”
“I want Parliament to listen to me, Alban Bagbin, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Haruna Iddrisu; they shouldn’t leave the fight to only Sam George and other people. We, the chiefs and pastors in Ghana, are against it. Most Ghanaians are also against it. A woman cannot marry a woman, a man cannot marry a man, how can they give birth? I want to use this opportunity to tell Ghanaians and the whole world, and also tell the whites, that we are not ready to travel to their country. We do not want their visa.”
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