Two gay partners who were arrested on Thursday by the Ghana Police Service, will be arraigned before the Ofaakor Circuit Court today.
The accused persons are Prince Nyator (victim) and Evans Amoah (suspect).
The duo were arrested after one inflicted cutlass wounds on the other for consistently denying him sex.
The jealous partner Evans, after being denied sex by his gay partner, Prince, as a result of having a girlfriend, accused him (Prince) of stealing leading to severe beatings by a group of youth in the area and inflicting cutlass wounds on him.
The duo are said to be employees of a fried rice joint (name withheld) at the Kasoa new market.
According to owner of the joint, he rented an apartment for the duo to accommodate them, but unknown to him, the two have been engaging in homosexual acts over the period.
According to sources, the duo met on Facebook, where Evans sent Prince an amount for transportation after he (Prince) agreed to become his (Evans) gay partner in exchange of employment at the fried rice joint.
Prince reportedly came from HO in the Volta Region, and has since been with Evans.
The case has been transferred from the New Market police station to the Divisional Command.
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The development follows raging debate over
The bill seeks to unequivocally criminalize LGBTQI+ activities.
According to the bill, people of the same sex who engage in sexual intercourse are “liable on summary conviction to a fine of not less than seven hundred and fifty penalty units and not more than five thousand penalty units, or to a term of imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than five years or both.”
The bill also proposes that a person who, by use of media, technological platform, technological account or any other means, produces, procures, markets, broadcasts, disseminates, publishes or distributes a material for purposes of promoting an activity prohibited under the Bill, or a person uses an electronic device, the Internet service, a film, or any other device capable of electronic storage or transmission to produce, procure, market, broadcast, disseminate, publishes or distribute a material for purposes of promoting an activity prohibited under the Bill, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a term of imprisonment of not less than five years and not more than ten years.
Ghana | Atinkaonline.com | Simon Agbovi
