Alhaji Yusif Fofana, a government spokesperson for social services has added his voice to the ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ bill and it activities in the country.
Speaking on UTV’s morning show Adekye Nsroma, Alhaji Yusif Fofana urged Ghanaians to come together and fight LGBTQ+ holistically without favoritism and fear.
He defended the Nana Akufo-Addo, saying the President has been clear about his stance on the LGBTQ+ activities in the country.
However, he accused former president John Dramani Mahama for being silent on the matter. He claimed that during Mahama’s book launch, he invited the president of the gays who was the first person to buy a copy of his memoir for $50,000.
Alhaji Fofana further claimed that he knows some parliamentarians who are being financially supported by LGBTQ+ community.
According to him, if Ghanaians want to fight against the LGBTQ+ right in the country, then Ghanaians must desist from being hypocrisy.
Some Parliamentarians from both sides are sponsored by the LGBTQ+ community – Alhaji Yusif Fofana#UTVGhana pic.twitter.com/Co6YdOhbFV
— UTV Ghana (@utvghana) July 17, 2023
Recently, Ghana’s 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.
