Members of Paliament who are sponsoring the anti-gay bill and a coalition backing them have given the Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, a 24-hour ultimatum to pull down a billboard promoting LGBTQI+ on the Tema-Motorway stretch of the N1.
According to Sam Nartey George, MP for Ningo Prampram, who is also the lead sponsor of the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021, addressing the media on Thursday morning June 9 at the Accra Mall, the erection of the billboard is a violation of Ghana’s laws specifically section 104 of the Criminal Offenses Act and so they demand an arrest and prosecution of persons behind the billboard and others.
According to them, failure for them to do so will push them (citizens) to take action and defend the constitution.
“…over the weekend our attention was drawn to an illegality, we realized that a bill board promoting the activities LGBTQ+ community have been mounted along the motorway, as sponsors of the bill in parliament and as Members of Parliament we have deemed it necessary to show up here to register in the strongest way our displeasure and our discomfort for this unholy and untraditional advertisement that has been put up on a very iconic road the N1 Tema motorway. “We are by this calling on the IGP to immediately within the next 24 hours carry out the necessary security operations to ensure that this bill board which is an affront to the1992 constitution is taken down in conjunction with the MCE for the area. Failure to take action, as citizens we will take action as enjoined in our constitution to defend the constitution”, he said.
They however took on Chairman for the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Kwame Anyimadu Antwi alleging he’s been compromised by the LGBTQI+ advocates to frustrate the current bill before his committee, in spite of his denial.