[ 2021-02-28 ]

Same-sex marriage will never happen under my Presidency – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has given the strongest
indication yet about his position on lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ+) activities in
the country.

As far as the President is concerned, legislation
of same-sex marriage to become lawful is not a
matter he will ever consider.

“I have said it before, and let me stress it
again, that it will not be under the Presidency of
Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo that same-sex
marriage will be legal,” he said Saturday.


He made these comments at the installation of the
2nd Archbishop of the Anglican Church held in
Asante Mampong.



The past few weeks have been characterised by a
plethora of discussions over LGBTQ+ following the
opening of the group’s office in Accra.

The development has been condemned by many as a
subtle enforcement of the group’s activities
which they say flies in the face of the
country’s laws, culture and beliefs.

The police together with the landlord on February
24 stormed and locked the LGBTQ office at
Ashongman in Accra in the wake of public discourse
over their operations.


Pro-gay rights activists in the country have
argued that the law does not explicitly outlaw the
act aside from its criminalisation of unnatural
carnal knowledge adding that government must
protect their interests as citizens.

Meanwhile, anti-gay rights advocates, National
Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and
Family Value and religious factions such as the
Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC),
National Peace Council, National Chief Imam have
further advanced arguments for the government to
dispel the ambiguity surrounding the laws on
sexuality.



Addressing the cheering gathering, President
Akufo-Addo insisted that; “…it will never
happen in my time as President.”

Meanwhile, Executive Director of the Ghana Center
for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has
cautioned government to not be swayed by what he
described as the tyranny of the masses in relation
to the protection of minority groups in the
country.

Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh said should
government allow itself and its power to be
deployed by the majority against minority groups,
it further marginalises and victimises these
minority groups in the country.

Source - Joyfm

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