Tension is brewing in the Kwabenya community in the Ga East municipality in the Greater Accra Region following the alleged meeting of Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) members in a house there.
Amidst the raging controversy regarding the opening of an office by members of the Lesbians Gays Bisexuals Transgender Queer and Intersexed community (LGBTQI), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ordered for the swift closure of same at Tesano in Accra.
A combined team of heavily armed police accompanied by armed National Security officials in mufti trooped the alleged LGBTQI premises and ordered all operations and activities to cease with immediate effect.
Additionally, all persons occupying the building were also asked to vacate the premises.
According to mynewsgh, the closure was confirmed by ardent critic of the LGBTQ community who is the Executive Secretary of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values.
The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to close down the recently opened office for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights of Ghana.
Annor had been brought on to discuss how one of the country’s few LGBT+ safe spaces has faced off against a so-called “family values” organisation pleading for its closure because, well, homophobia.
“This is going to be the very first time that I am using your medium to say that not only am I an activist for the rights of Africa’s sexual minorities, what you will call the LGBT+ community, but I am gay,” he told host Ayisha Ibrahim.
“Obviously, I denied it because I was afraid of losing my job, I was working at an incredible television station in Accra and also for the fear of what would happen to me personally.”
The Director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights of Ghana, Alex Kofi Donkor, has urged Ghanaians to stop hating them in the country.