The proponents of the Anti-LGBT+ Bill, also called as the Promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, have warned media companies and schools strongly not to promote LGBTQ-related events.
The group laments the fact that several multinational schools with operations in the nation have started to encourage such behavior in their programs, in violation of the letter and spirit of the law.
After the anti-gay Bill’s debate in Parliament was over, its supporters, including Nartey George, an MP for Ningo-Prampram, and Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, an MP for Assin South, warned that any institution that supports LGBTQ+ acts would face sanctions.
“There are schools in Ghana that are beginning to introduce elements of LGBTQ+ and CSE in their operations already. They may claim to be foreign schools, but no school can operate in Ghana outside the laws of the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GES), and so those schools should take notice that the Ministry of Education will be duly apprised of their activities and sanctions will be applied accordingly,” Sam George warned.
On his part, the Assin South MP said “we are also not going to take it kindly on any media house that will give their media houses for advocacy, propaganda and promotion of LGBTQ+ and its related activities. It is abhorred and frowned upon. We want the entire media houses to join us.”