Flagbearer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has openly declared his stance on the activities of the LGBTQ community and persons in Ghana.
Parliament, through a Private Members’ motion is considering the ‘Promotion Of Proper Human Sexual Rights And Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021’, which is yet to be considered by parliament, 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.
Delivering a speech at a public forum with the clergy in Koforidua as part of his ‘Building Ghana Tour’ today Wednesday, January 31, 2024, former President John Dramani Mahama said he is against the activities of the LGBTQ likewise his faith.
“My faith as an Assemblies of God member is against LGBTQ. Because the faith I have does not support a man to marry a man and a woman marry a woman.
“I personally believe a man is a man and a woman is a woman. I don’t believe one can get up in a day and opt to change his gender because he feels like, so he’s going to change to become a woman when he has actually been born a man. Nature created us man and woman and God knew what he was doing when he created us like that. So my personal faith is against it,” John Dramani Mahama said.
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