Striking LGBTQ+ promoters have no health personnel among them- Anyidoho

Mr Samuel Koku Anyidoho, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Atta-Mills Institute, has reacted to the opposition of the Anti-LGBTQ+ law by 18 prominent Ghanaians.

 In a twitter post sighted by GhanaPlus.com, he quizzed if it was not usually that the 18 seeking to rubbish the Promotion of Proper Human Sexuality and Ghanaian family Value Bill 2021 had no health practitioner among them.

Mr Anyidoho said the medical expect were fully aware of the consequences of the act, health wise, describing it as dire.

“Is it not very striking that there is no medical doctor nor health personnel among the 18 Ghanaians who have gained prominence for the wrong reasons? Certainly, the health workers are fully aware of the dire health issues involved. May God continue to bless our Homeland Ghana,” Mr Anyidoho wrote.

Is it not very striking that there is no medical doctor nor health personnel among the 18 Ghanaians who have gained prominence for the wrong reasons? Certainly, the health workers are fully aware of the dire health issues involved. May God continue to bless our Homeland Ghana 🇬🇭

— Samuel Koku Anyidoho🇬🇭 (@KokuAnyidoho) October 13, 2021

The renowned politician shared the tweet on Tuesday October 12.

Anyidoho on elite class promoting LGBTQ+ in Ghana

Ghana’s Proper Human Sexuality and Ghanaian Family Value Bill 2021, an anti-gay bill to protect the country’s family value system, curtail the activities of LGBTQ+, criminalize their activities, offer medical and rehabilitation as well as protection for persons within the community from societal abuse had been met with stiff opposition by some Ghanaian elites.

The group numbering eighteen (18) are made of the Lecturers, Lawyers, Human Right Advocate, Journalist, Communication Specialist among others but had no health professional.

The membership include the following, Legal practitioner, Mr Akoto Ampaw; Communication Specialist, Professor Emerita Takyiwaaa Manuh;  Veteran Journalist, Lecturer and Communications Specialist, Professor Kwame Karikari; Co-Founder of Afrobarometer andm Academian, Professor Kofi Gyimah-Boadi; Dean of the School of Information and Communication Studies, University of Ghana, Professor Audrey Gadzekpo and Gender Advocate and  Journalist, Dr Rose Mensah-Kutin.

Others are the Coordinator of the Third World Network, Dr Yao Graham; Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Professor Dzodzi Tsikata; Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh; former Secretary-General of the Trades Unions Congress (TUC), Mr Kwasi Adu Amankwah and Senior Research Officer at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Dr Kojo Asante.

The rest of the LGBTQ+ promoters in Ghana are the Chairman at Food Security Policy Advocacy Network, Mr Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah;  CEO of Heritage Development, Mr Akunu Dake; Head of Programmes Third World Network, Mr Tetteh Hormeku-Ajie;  the Dean of Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana, Professor Raymond Atuguba;  Politican and former member of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Dr Charles Wereko –Brobby; Chief Executive Officer Afrobarometer, Dr Joseph Asunka and Journalist, Nana Ama Agyemang Asante.

The eighteen (18) were of the view that any attempt to criminalize LGBTQ+ would be an infringement of human right enshrine in the country’s constitution.

They opined approving the bill would erode the gains made as far as human right in the country was concerned.

The bill is currently before parliament.

Source: GhanaPlus.com