Ghana cracks down on gays
Ghana’s Western Region Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo MP has ordered the immediate arrest of all homosexuals in the country’s west.
Aidooo has tasked Ghana’s Bureau of National Investigations and security forces to round up the country’s gay population and has called on landlords and tenants to inform on people they suspect of being homosexuals.
“All efforts are being made to get rid of these people in the society,” he said.
The move by the Minister follows months of campaigning by the Christian Council of Ghana which last week called on Ghanaians not to vote for any politician who believes in the rights of homosexuals.
Muslims and Christians in the Western Region have been staging protests ever since a local media report claimed there were around 8000 homosexuals and lesbians in the district.
However, a lawyer at Kwame Nkrumah University, Ernest Kofi Abotsie, questioned the legality of the move.
Abotsie said laws outlawing “unnatural canal knowledge” in the Ghanaian criminal code were ambiguous and had not been defined to mean homosexuality, and it was wrong for politicians to be telling police how to carry out their duties.
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It’s sad here that in the 21st century, there’s still some narrow minded people. Ghana and all of these other countries who makes homosexuality/bisexuality illegal should be cut off from aid from other countries since they can’t seem to treat their own citizens with respect. Since when did falling in love with somebody of the same sex became such a crime? What about the murders, rapist, and pedophiles? They more than likely roam the streets free, while innocent lgbt people are persecuted just for who they are. And these countries call themselves “Christians and/or Islamics”? To me, they all seem like hypocrites and need to learn to respect others-not necessarily saying that they should accept it, but live and let live. And it’s no wonder that the HIV rate is high for these homophobic countries due to their ignorance. It’s strange though, a country like Ghana is so anti-gay but if you go onto a gay website, there would be thousands of Ghanaians on these sites, though to primarily scam people out of money. Why don’t their government do something about that instead of going on this “witch hunt” for lgbt people? At this rate, countries like Ghana will not progress.
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The fact of the matter is that Gay people have thrived in African Societies for centuries and have done so without the help of Wetern Governments..I speak in relation to Ghana where the subject is embroiled in such hypocrisy…The government Minister who made such serious claims for gay men and women to be rounded up and criminalised does not speak for the Ghanaian government…Number 2, The current British Government must realize that life in the eyes of a typical African will never be synonymous as the Western World…. Family structures in Africa are more intact than what currently exists in Britain and that some things are best left for Africans to deal with..Its very apparant that David Cameron like his predecessor will never learn…Britain and America talks about Freedom..
Is it the freedom we see on our streets in London that he wants to impose on Africa….? or is he again wants to play politics with the lives of Africans? Yes there are countries that have committed atrocities and they must be dealt with by the international community…I would like to remind Mr Cameron that if he has any conscience he should look at home first…and deal with the day to day abuses of systems that have been designed to protect gay people but are flaunted day in and day out. to date No single gay person have been killed because of their sexuality in Ghana… I’m guessing that the same cannot be said for Britain….Ghana’s family structures are intact…there is hardly any social services intervention for decades…because there is a very fine blue print…and its majority of the population values human life and are God fearing…and no amount of high tech social services policies can deliver that! Mr Cameron can try….but will eat the biggest humble pie ever…! If Mr Cameron wants to help Ghana or indeed Africa…he should save his energy and tackle the crippling interest rates he and his British Government imposes on poorer countries through borrowing knowing that the debt and its related interest rate can never be paid….and in doing so dictate to countries like Ghana….The SLAVE and Master ideology is still as rife…..I rest My Case!
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Sad things is that we have all learned to accept this in our society with no regrets though to give in to a religious and fascist way of thinking is just pathetic to the extreme. Everyone I truly HATED same sex anything; possibly went out and hurt male/female same sex people though now I have accepted this around me, notice i did not say forced to accept it or deal with it.
WE WILL BURN THE GAYS, DONT TRY GHANA…. WE WILL BURN U ALL
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“All efforts are being made to GET RID OF THESE PEOPLE! Really?!?!? Seriously!!! Like How! As the Nazis did to Jews in the Late 30s and early 40s With a “Final Solution?” Shame On You People for thinking it Your God Given Right to Persecute Other People and Think By Doing So, You Remain In God’s Good Graces! You Are SO WRONG! We Are All Humans With Various Ways Of Loving, Not All The Same. If You Think The Way I Love and Relate To My Life Partner, And How I Bond With HIM, Then Don’t YOU Do It! It’s None Of Your Business! You Love And Intimately Interact With Your “Partner” Your Way, And I Will Intimately Interact With Mine OUR Way!