Richard Ahiagbah, the Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has accused the ruling NDC government of promoting LGBTQ.
The NPP communicator highlighted that the NDC in opposition benefited from LGBTQ but today they are promoting it by sneaking it into the Senior High School curriculum.
Speaking on Starr FM, Richard Ahiagbah stated, “The NDC benefited from it, but today, you see the true people who are promoting that.
Just recently, you saw the teacher manuals that they printed, which cannot be a mistake by anybody’s definition. It is intentionally what else can it be? They are telling me a whole NaCCa, a whole Ministry of Education, a whole Ghana Education Service missed that?”.
Richard Ahiagbah added, “Whose mistake are you okay with such a mistake coming from the government? Assuming it is a mistake, will you embrace that as good enough? If you are just going to chastise them, at what point do you draw the line and say it is not good enough?
This is no verbal situation; they have written the thing, so they did not read the thing, they approve it, why are they there?”
Also, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Minority in Parliament, addressing the media have accused the NDC government of only using the anti-LGBTQ bill as a political tool to win the 2024 general elections.
According to the Minority caucus, the NDC leveraged the legislation to win power but is currently seeking ways to dissociate itself from the law.
He highlighted that the NDC’s posture sharply contradicts its campaign rhetoric, citing the inclusion of LGBTQ-related content in the Senior High School curriculum.
Speaking to the media at the Minority Caucus’s Holding Government to Account press conference, Alexander Afenyo-Markin stated, “We hear His Excellency the President play on words to say that government was engaging in wider consultation to see how the law could be formulated in a better way. Really? Was it not the same law they said was okay to be passed?
When the Mighty Minority members decided through private members bill to now pin them to their own principles, suddenly after all the processes has been followed, and approval given and the motion was on the order paper, the NDC through its Majority leader found a way of using procedure to claim that there was no such approval by the Speaker and tried to scapegoat the Clerk of Parliament.
We hold the view that the NDC used the Anti-LGBTQ law only for power, and now that they are facing the reality, they want to find a way of running away from it. We will insist that they act by their own principle,” he said.
Meanwhile, President John Dramani Mahama has made a definitive statement on the pending anti-LGBTQ bill legislation, declaring that he will assent to the bill if it is passed by Parliament.
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