According to Joyce Opoku Boateng, the rights of LGBT people must be respected.
“I don’t think it will be right for anyone to invade their office and attack them because they have not met to engage in any sexual activities. Every human being when you’re born has a fundamental right that no one can take away from you. But we have our norms and culture that frown upon certain things,” she said.
In an interview on Accra-based Starr FM, she said “If you are caught in the act of having unnatural carnal practice then that’s criminal but when someone expresses his/herself, that’s not criminal because the law is not against that. Assuming someone dresses like a female and you go and beat up the person, it’s a clear case of assault.”
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated that same-sex marriage will not be legalized in Ghana.
Speaking at the installation of the second Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Ghana at Asante Mampong in the Ashanti Region on Saturday, [February 27, 2021], President Akufo-Addo stressed that it will never happen during his presidency.
“I have said this before, let me in conclusion stress again, that it will not be under the presidency of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that same-sex marriage will be legal, that same-sex marriage will be legalized in Ghana, it will never happen in my time as President.”
“Let me repeat, it will never happen in my time as President,” President Akufo-Addo stressed.
A member of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Value, Reverend Dr Appiah Kubi, has cautioned advocates of lesbian and gay rights not to think they are more intelligent than any other person.
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Amnesty International has condemned the police for what it describes as an invasion of the safe space for LGBT Rights Ghana.
The police on Wednesday morning stormed and locked down the recently opened office of the group at Ashongman in Accra in the wake of public discourse over their operations.
This followed an uproar by a cross-section of Ghanaians calling for the closure of the said office adding that their activities are alien to the Ghanaian culture and beliefs.
However, the Acting Country Director, Frank Doyi says the manner in which the police went about the closure exhibits a clear violation of the country’s laws.