The Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George, has called on the Inspector General of Police to pull down the billboard mounted by members of the Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) community in Ghana.
This comment comes after the LGBTQI community in Ghana mounted a bill board along the Tema Motorway to commemorate Pride Awareness month.
Expressing his displeasure during a Press conference on Thursday 9th June 2022, The Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam George said the billboard is an affront to the 1992 Constitution and that he will take the necessary action within the legal framework to destroy the bill board should the Police fail to pull it down.
“As sponsors of the bill before Parliament and as Members of Parliament who represent the aspirations and will of the Ghanaian people, we have deemed it important to show up here today to register in the strongest term our displeasure, our discomfort and our abhorrence for unholy, uncultural and untraditional billboard advertisement that has been put up on a very iconic road the N1, the Tema motorway.”
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“We are by this, calling on the Inspector General of Police Dr Akuffo Dampare to immediately, within the next twenty four hours, carry out the necessary security operations to ensure that this billboard, which is an affront to the 1992 Constitution is taken down in conjunction with the MCE for the area. Failure to take action, as citizens we will take action as enjoined by the Constitution to defend the Constitution,” Sam George told press men.
According to the anti gay 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 anti-gay 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.
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