Dr Michael Abu Sakara Foster, Founder of the National Interest Movement (NIM), has said supporters of LGBTQ+ activities should have themselves to blame for the passage of the Promotion of Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill otherwise known as the Anti-LGBTQ+/gay bill.
Dr. Abu Sakara says Ghanaians have been living with practitioners of the act over the years without any brouhaha, until people started agitating for its advocacy.
He has been explaining that if they had been silenced and practiced their act in secrecy as has been done over the years, there wouldn’t have been any need for the law.
The founding member of the Alliance for Revolutionary Change (ARC) says he does not see the bill as anything speaking against LGBT critically speaking, but rather to stop people from making advocate for it.
“The main objective of it [the bill], is that, in my hometown, in my culture, I don’t want you to promote it here. I didn’t even see it as something against LGBT people in particular. I know you have more money than me, you can control the airwaves, it is okay with you, it’s not okay with you, don’t promote here and I suggest that if those who are in favour had not been so aggressive in promoting the acceptance of LGBT here as the same way they have it there, we would never have passed this law,” he told Captain Smart on Onua TV Thursday, April 18, 2024.
The Anti-LGBT bill is a proposed law passed by Parliament on February 28, 2024 that would introduce wide-ranging restrictions on LGBT+ rights in Ghana. It was approved by with bipartisan support, and will only come into effect if signed into law by the President.
Meanwhile, President William Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has refused to sign the bill attributing it to some pending cases at the Supreme Court, injuncting him to perform his constitutional duty of signing or rejecting the bill.
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