The National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Stephen Ayesu Ntim says under no circumstance will the party support the activities of LGBTQ+ in Ghana.
According to him, condoning the abominable act will mean defying the commandment of the Almighty God.
“I want to state emphatically without any fear of equivocation that the New Patriotic Party that I chair will never support LGBTQ. The good Lord God wants us to populate this earth that he has put at our disposal. How do we achieve that commandment if we are going to resort to LGBTQ+, you ask yourself? There’s no way you can answer that question.”
Chairman Ntim said this while speaking at a thanksgiving service at the Pentecost International Worship Centre (PIWC) at Atomic in Accra on Sunday by the National Executives of the NPP in commemoration of their first anniversary in office.
Meanwhile, Ghana’s Parliament has unanimously adopted the “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2022”.
The object of the Bill is to provide for proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian Family Values proscribe lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) and related activities.
The Bill now moves to the consideration stage, after which it will go through the third reading before it is passed into law.
During the second laying of the Bill, when Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin put the question as to which of the 275 Members of Parliament (MPs) was against the adoption of the Bill, the House unanimously voted for its adoption.
The bi-partisan Private Members ‘Bill was introduced by eight Members of Parliament (MPs) led by Mr Samuel Nartey George, National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Ningo-Prampram.
The rest are Mr Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, NDC MP for Ho West; Madam Della Adjoa Sowah, NDC MP for Kpando and Reverend John Ntim Fordjour, New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Assin South.
The rest are Mr Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini, NDC MP for Tamale North, Madam Rita Naa Odoley Sowah, NDC MP for Dadekotopon; Madam Helen Adjoa Ntoso, NDC MP for Kete Krachi and Mr Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwami Dafeamekpor, NDC MP for South Dayi.
