MP demands closure of Accra LGBTQI center, and prosecution of perpetrators

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Member of Parliament for Assin South Constituency, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has called for the immediate closure of the LGBTQI resource center recently commissioned in Accra.

National Security, he said, should close down the center and prosecute the perpetrators accordingly.

He questioned whether if an ‘Armed Robbers Association’ or ‘Drug Traffickers Association’ were to publicly open an office in any obscure corner of Ghana, the security agencies would have allowed them to operate.

Rev. Ntim Fordjour, also an Anti-corruption and Anti-LGBTQI values advocate in a statement said the Ghanaian society since the pre-colonial era had always upheld a culture of morality and decency.

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He urged the clergy, Muslim clerics and traditional leaders to rise up and voice their uncompromising opposition to the phenomenon, which is an affront to the values and orientation of the nation-state Ghana.

He said, “Within our cultural and traditional contexts, the practices of Lesbianism, Homosexuality, Bestiality and Transgender and other related practices of LGBTQI had long been held as an abomination and utterly abhorred.”

“The concept of family for us as Ghanaians has always been and will always be initiated by marriage between a man and woman.”

“The fundamental principle of Biblical marriage is construed as one between man and woman as it was in the beginning instituted by God between Adam and Eve.”

According to the Reverend father, also a Member of the Appointments Committee of Parliament, the influence of the West on the Ghanaian society relating to LGBTQI infiltrations remain a pressure that must be resisted as long as it shows no indication of abating.

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Section 104 of Ghana’s Criminal Code, he said, proscribes LGBTQI with the specific provision of ‘unnatural carnal knowledge.’

According to him, he remains an ardent advocate for the enforcement of existing laws and fully inclined towards further legislation to adequately deal with these matters in line with the 1992 Constitution, and Ghana’s broad religious and cultural orientation, with particular regard for morality.

He argued that contrary to claims that persons practicing LGBTQI are discriminated against they have rather been pampered and treated with kid gloves in Ghana.

He noted that there seems to be public glorification in the media of these acts that are a serious infraction of Ghana’s laws.

“The impunity of open and public advocacy and practice of LGBTQI is on the rise largely because perpetrators have not been prosecuted.”

“The recent opening of LGBTQI resource center in Accra is the height of it. Is the National Security apparatus telling us that they have no information on the location of this so-called LGBTQI resource center that has been opened for weeks now?”

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“Are they telling us they have no intelligence on the people and groups behind this abominable act? Why are they quite,” he questioned?

“It is appalling and most hypocritical that a state that abhors LGBTQI practices on religious and cultural orientation as well as criminalizes same practices per our Criminal Code would sit unconcerned for such impunity to be perpetrated,” he added.

“Some of us, regardless of the ramifications, cannot shut up! I’ll keep up the advocacy for further strengthening of our laws to completely and assertively deal with the complexities of LGBTQI matters.”

“I will continue to explore my legislative options under the private member’s bill until such a time when existing laws will be confidently enforced with additional laws proscribing the advocacy for LGBTQI practices in Ghana,” he stated.

He appealed to state and non-state actors and external diplomatic entities to respect the sovereign orientation and decision of Ghana in such matters and withhold their undue interference under the guise of human rights.

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