The faces behind the academic tittles that are pushing for gay rights
As many of you know, Akoto Ampaw Esq, President Akufo-Addo’s lawyer and a group of professors and other elites, under the cloak of human rights are helping lead the push against proscribing LGBTQ+ Ghana, jumped into a sudden spotlight a week ago with remarks that are disgusting and not grounded in sound academic reasoning, even by fundie standards.
Spontaneously, the members of the group have hijacked the airwaves struggling to canvass for same-sex attraction rights.
One would have thought that, as Professors and Doctors, they were with arguments hinged on facts and science. Sadly, theirs so far, has been so emotional, superstitious, insulting, and religious.
According to the self-acclaimed human-rights activists, the bill (Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill) when passed into law, would erode fundamental human rights, as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution, and send Ghana to the dark ages of lawlessness and intolerance.
The group, made up of eighteen (18) members, has already submitted a 30-page memorandum to Parliament, detailing what it described as the unconstitutionality of the bill.
According to the group, the bill which sought to criminalize the activities of the LGBTQ+ would wear away fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1992 constitution.
“The bill violates virtually all the key fundamental freedoms guaranteed under the constitution , namely the right to freedom of speech and expression , the right to assemble , freedom of association and the right to organise , the right to freedom from discrimination and the right to human dignity ,” Mr Ampaw who spoke on behalf of the group at a press conference in Accra said.
For the gay-rights pushers, infidelity in marriage is dangerous than LGBTQI+.
‘Fornication, adultery bigger threat to society than LGBTQI+’ Akoto Ampaw said.
The group added that its advocacy was not about whether lesbianism or gayism was right or wrong, but rather worried about the blatant violations of human rights, as contained in the bill.
But National Democratic (NDC) Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Hon. Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor has thrown a challenge to the pushers of same-sex attraction to fight for the many minority groups in the country whose rights are being trampled upon by government.
Singling the lead crusader Akoto Ampaw out for rebuke, Dafeamekpor said, instead of Lawyer Ampaw fighting for his people and the marginalized women at the witches’ camp he is fighting a lose battle.
To him, even though he (Mr Ampaw) hails from Santrofi, Akpafu, Likpe and Lolobi (SALL) where the people have been denied representation in Parliament, he is yet to talk about it. Or the SALL people don’t have rights, they don’t have freedoms,” he quizzed angrily.
The bill is now before the Constitutional and Legal Committee of Parliament after going through the first reading. The Committee says it is receiving memos from Ghanaians to enhance its decision on the bill.
The pro-gay group is made of seven Professors, five Doctor Degree Holders, plus six others with varying qualifications.
The membership includes, Legal practitioner, Akoto Ampaw Esq, Communication Specialist, Professor Emerita Takyiwaaa Manuh, a Veteran Journalist, Lecturer and Communications Specialist, Professor Kwame Karikari, Co-Founder of Afrobarometer and Academic, 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, Coordinator of the Third World Network, Dr Yao Graham, Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Professor Dzodzi Tsikata and Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana)Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh.
Others are former Secretary-General of the Trades Unions Congress (TUC), Mr Kwasi Adu Amankwah, Senior Research Officer at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana),Dr Kojo Asante, 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.
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