SoNA 2021: I am disappointed in President Akufo-Addo’s silence on LGBTQI+ issues in Ghana – Bishop Owusu Agyemang

Founder and Leader of the Apostles Pentecostal Ministry International (APMI) in Techiman, in the Bono East Region, Bishop Stephen Owusu Agyemang has registered his disappointment at the stone silence of President Nana Akufo-Addo on the raging issue of Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Intersex plus (LGBTQI+) in his State of the Nations address delivered to Parliament last week.

According to the Bishop the President’s silence on the abominable act in his address to the Nation is not helping matters in the rage. He claimed the promoters have emboldened their activities in the country with some Ghanaians openly declaring their support for these LGBTQI promoters.

Bishop Stephen Owusu Agyeman in a recent interview with Ghananewsonline.com.gh observed among others that

“Addressing the Nation on its State, we Ghanaians essentially, I was expecting the President to put finality to the matter by speaking to the Nation in his address on the issues once and for all.”

The Man of God who has joined hands with the Citizenry Against LGBTQI and many other voices to condemn persons engaging in what is against what the Bible and Quran teaches, as well as the culture and traditions of Ghana, also noted that

“I can boldly blame our President on his statement made in an Al Jazeera interview in 2017 where the President emphatically stated his position on homosexuality, the President should have said he won’t accept such abominable act in the country, no matter and whatever human rights we have.”

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He said the “base on what the President said in the AL Jazeera interview that with strong advocacy homosexuality is bound to happen in Ghana gave the LGBTQI people hope, and this the president should have stated categorically in the SoNA.

Bishop Stephen Owusu Agyeman advised Ghanaians to go down on their knees to seek God’s intervention.

By William Dei Gyau