LGBT activist: “Criminalizing the LGBT community won’t help Ghana’s current problems”
According to Alex Kofi Donkor, the Founder and Director of LGBTQ+ Right – Ghana, criminalizing LGBT people will not significantly alter the nation.
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.
The anti-gay bill’s proponent, Ningo-Prampram MP, called the US government’s bluff in an interview with Starr News, accusing them of trying to force gay rights on Ghana.
The MP asserts that the American government is under pressure to submit due to the economic disaster that the Nana Addo administration has thrown the nation into.
The LGBT activist said that, contrary to what they appear to be promoting, the LGBT bill’s backers have nothing to do with family values when speaking on Starr Today with Joshua Kodjo Mensha.
What are the family values for which you seek to imprison me? It is what? The very person who claims that what makes him more family-valued than me to the point that he wants to prosecute me for what? is simply using words to divide us unnecessarily. If you make me a criminal, what will actually change and what will be a substantial difference?
“I am a Ghanaian who also performs my duties as a researcher. I pay my taxes on time each month, MoMo fees, and everything that a Ghanaian is expected to do. Yet someone is seated somewhere bringing other Ghanaians into shame because he has the chance to be an MP, and we let it happen? said Mr. Donkor.
“Uganda just recently passed the bill,” he continued. What fundamental alteration has taken place in Uganda that Ghana wishes to imitate? Do you wish to contrast our development with Uganda’s? I apologize. Let’s face it: These folks are only dividing us needlessly to further their own narrow interests.
Nothing is endangering the Ghanaian family, he claims.
“We are all Ghanaians and we are all a part of Ghana. Nobody is more of a Ghanaian than anyone else. Let’s put a stop to this, he said.