Private legal practitioner, Dr. Lawrence Ampaw has stated categorically that he’s not gay as it being bandied around by a section of the public.
According to the controversial lawyer, claims some persons in the oppositon National DemocratiC Congress (NDC) have accused him of being a a gay, which is frowned upon by a vast majority of eople,
But speaking to Bonohene Baffuor Awuah on Ghana Kasa show on Kasapa FM, Maurice Ampaw emphasized that he likes women and there’s no way he can have an affair with his fellow man.
”I hate them(LGBTQ) with passion eventhough the NDC has labled me as gay. If you have a look at me, how can I be gay? The number of girls I have slept is more than 100. I have five children. My wife who died gave me twins, and I told my new spouse to take good care of the twins because they are gift from God. Just two weeks ago, she also delivered another set of twins. I like woman, I don’t like men. Even animals don’t do that.”
In mid-June 2021, Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana Alban Bagbin stated that LGBT+ rights “should not be encouraged or accepted by our society” and that “urgent actions are being taken to pass a law to eventually nip the activities of [LGBT+] groups in the bud.” Later that month, eight MPs in the Parliament proposed the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021.The eight MPs were Sam Nartey George, Della Sowah, Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, Alhassan Suhuyini, Rita Naa Odoley Sowah, Helen Ntoso, and Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, all of the National Democratic Congress, as well as John Ntim Fordjour of the New Patriotic Party. On 1 July, Alban Bagbin stated that he expected the law to be passed within six months, telling a prayer meeting of Ghanaian MPs that “the LGBT+ pandemic is worse than COVID-19.”
On 2 August 2021, the bill passed its first reading in the Ghanaian Parliament, being referred to the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs.
On 12 November 2021, public hearings began on the bill in the Parliament of Ghana. On the first day of hearings, Henry Kwasi Prempeh of the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development spoke against the bill, saying that “merely because you see yourself as part of a momentary majority, does not entitle you to impose your will on even one individual in the society.” Kyeremeh Atuahene of the Ghana AIDS Commission said that the bill risked criminalising anti-HIV/AIDS efforts in the country, and also pushing back against donor funding.
On 6 December 2021, Moses Foh-Amoaning of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values spoke in support of the bill, saying LGBT+ people were “not well, and the law gives [health authorities] the power to restrain such people.”
On 5 July 2023, the Parliament of Ghana unanimously voted to grant the Bill a second reading, and agreed to minor amendments proposed by the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee.
Source: Kasapafmonline.com/102.5FM
