Kpebu shies away from LGBTQ discussions says he want to discuss hunger

Human Right Lawyer, Lawyer Martin Kpebu on Saturday decline remarks on ongoing discussions about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexuals, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) in the country following the President’s, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s interaction with US Vice President Kamala Harris on the topic.

Speaking on TheKeyPoint on TV3 monitored by GhanaPlus.com he said he prefers to talk about the hunger in the country rather than LGTBQ+.

That he said was because persons engaged in the practice have failed to show their faces in the fight for their right hence he will not be the one to take up such task on their behalf.

“To be very frank with you, I don’t intend to go into the merit debate for LGBTQ, I don’t because I have made comment on it in the past. Briefly stating that if some people who want to fight it is within their right to fight for it but the reason I am no longer interested in joining this debate aggressively is that the people who practice this LGBTQ they don’t want to show their face so I am like how am I going to advocate for a faceless person so that is the disconnect”.

“…..Privately, I have seen big lawyers who are involved, there are big lawyers who are gay and they can’t fight for themselves and you are saying Kpebu, I should come and fight, no you can’t fight everything. There are big lawyers, am telling you on authority, big lawyers involved and they don’t want to show their faces”.

“At least come out, let see, explain your situation. Yes they have to come out. Not only lawyers, doctor, all shades of professions. It is even in the bible it did not start today”.

Lawyer Kpebu said unless they show their faces and stand by what they believe in, he and many like-minded Ghanaians won’t fight their fight for them.

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“I have been telling some of them privately that if you even get 50 of them snap a picture, come out come and address a press conference. You see, when they speak, we will see, it will evoke compassion then some of us can begin to speak but if when you are in your closet then I will come and sit here, you have the right, you have the  right, who am I talking to’.

He noted although they may be shying away from the public for the fear of the lives that was one of the fallout in their quest for their right hence they must face it.

“I understand that sometimes there are reprisals but that is part of the fight,” Lawyer Kpebu said.

Source: GhanaPlus.com