Stephen Ntim, the National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has stated that the NPP is opposed to the acceptance of LGBTQ+ people in this country.
Speaking to the clergy and other leaders yesterday at the PIWC-Atomic in Accra to mark the first anniversary of the current national executives taking office, Mr. Ntim pledged that the party and its national executives would not go so far as to support LGBTQ+ rights in the nation.
He noted that the party would not act in opposition to those beliefs because the party upheld the nation’s moral and religious values, which disapproved of the practice.
“The good Lord wants us to continue to populate this earth that he has put at our disposal.
If we are to use LGBTQ+, how do we fulfill that commandment.
We are unable to provide a response to that query.
“If we are going to answer it means it is contrary to the dictates of the good book, the Bible.
It also means if we are going to follow that route, sooner or later, all of us will cease to exist because we cannot continue to populate the world with human beings,” he stated.
Mr. Ntim urged the clergy to keep up their prayers for Ghana and the NPP.
He claimed that the NPP, a center-right party, sought to uphold and protect the traditions and values of the community.
“We in the NPP are opposed to any systematic attempt to normalise LGBTQ+ and related conduct in Ghana because it is not part of the legacy,” he added.
Mr Ntim said the preoccupation of the party was to address and improve the living conditions of Ghanaians, stressing that “LGBTQ+ is not one of them”.
He urged Ghanaians, especially the young people, to be proud of who they were and resist the cultural agenda of the LGBTQ+ movement’s proponents.
He urged the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to stop trying to force the LGBTQ+ community onto the NPP.
Last Wednesday, the Ghanaian Parliament unanimously approved the “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2022”.
The purpose of the Bill is to protect human sexuality and Ghanaian Family Values by outlawing activities that are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and related.
The House voted unanimously in favor of the bill’s adoption during the second laying of the bill when Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin asked which of the 275 Members of Parliament (MPs) opposed its adoption.
Eight Members of Parliament (MPs), led by Samuel Nartey George, NDC MP for Ningo-Prampram, introduced the bipartisan Private Members’ Bill.
The other three are Reverend John Ntim Fordjour of the NPP, who represents Assin South, and Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah of the NDC, who represents Ho West.
Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini, an NDC representative for Tamale North, Rita Naa Odoley Sowah, an NDC representative for Dadekotopon, Helen Adjoa Ntoso, an NDC representative for Kete Krachi, and Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwami Dafeamekpor, an NDC representative for South Dayi, round out the group.
