Opinion: Civil Society Groups threaten legal action if Akufo-Addo accents to anti-LGBTQ+ bill

While appreciating the rights of individuals or groups to their opinion, it shocks me that some people like Senior lecturerer Audrey Gadzekpo was threatening to take President Akufo-Addo to court if he accents to the bill,while others are demanding more public debate!

Well, I guess they are protecting their personal interests, which must never override the interests of the over 30 millions of Ghanaians. Is there any bill that has had more public scrutiny than this one? At one point I personally felt because there are a lot of pro-LGBTQ+ within the NPP Including the President himself and the party’s bigwigs that was why they were not only stalling the bill but also made sure it went all around the country for public hearings and inputs.

Now the people’s representatives did the biddings of their constituents and people like Audrey Gadzekope who schooled in America and must therefore understand how democracy works, are saying what? The LGBTQ+ lobby groups have billions of money to throw around to lure people to lobby for their morally aberrant behaviours. I hope the likes of Audrey Gadzekpo did not fall prey to them. If they don’t like the family sexual values Ghanaians want which their legislators responded to in a very responsible way, they are welcome to move to the morally depraved societies in America, Canada and Europe and be birds of the same feather with them. And President Akufo-Addo who indeed has opened the floodgates of this aberrant behaviour upon Ghanains, must now decide between the voices of over 30 million Ghanaians and those of a few of society’s miscreants with huge LGBTQ+ lobbby dollars. Ghanaian family cultural values are not up for sale to the highest bidder!

By Randy Sobo

The writer is a freelance journalist and African in the diaspora