“Disregard this post” – Afenyo-Markin distanced himself from viral anti-LGBTQ bill post

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Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Effutu, has denied posting a social media post criticising Ghana’s Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, commonly known as the anti-LGBTQ bill.

According to Afenyo-Markin, the public must disregard the post claiming that his account was compromised.

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In the claimed compromised post, which has now been deleted, Afenyo-Markin stated that laws should not criminalise individuals based on their sexual orientation or personal relationships.

The post read, “A law that imprisons people for their sexual orientation or who they choose to love does not protect society. It simply selects a group of human beings and makes their existence a crime. That is a line no Parliament in the civilised world should cross”.

However, after the post was removed, Afenyo-Markin stated, “Kindly disregard this post. Account was compromised”.

Nonetheless, some netizens have commented on the Minority leaders’ post saying, “Talk your shit with full chest.

Whoever 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 etc consenting adults decide to do with themselves is not a national problem as long as it harms no one”.

“Wait, both your X and Facebook got hacked at the same time?”, a netizen added.

One X user added, “Heyyy, for God’s sake, it’s a lie. I commented on this post, I personally replied, and I have a screenshot I read on your page that’s a big disgrace to you. I’ve signed out of NPP”.

“Account was NOT compromised. If it was you’d be on panic mode and start securing your account fast. This was the link to your twitter post https://x.com/AfenyoMarkin/status/2061784462103314856?s=20 an attached is a screenshot I took we are not fools in this country let’s be civilized”, a netizen added.

Meanwhile, Alban Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament, has revealed he has summoned the leadership of both the Majority and Minority caucuses over the passage of the  Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, commonly known as the anti-LGBTQ+ bill.

According to Speaker Bagbin, the anti-LGBTQ+ bill is critical, adding that there must be a consensus because it is not about Parliament.

Speaking to the media in a video shared on social media, Speaker Bagbin stated, “I have asked the leaders to meet me in my office. So, they will be here for us to go through it. This is such a critical bill that we believe there must be consensus because it is not about Parliament”.

“The UN Charter, the African people’s rights and what all we have to go through all. Then we have also our development partners who had a lot of contributions to make. We had the United Nations coming in with proposals, some new rules and everything,” he stated.

“We as Ghanaians also have to dig deeper into our cultures, our customs, our values before we came up with what was passed on Friday,” he added.

“And in fact, when it was passed on Friday, it was even a surprise to me because I knew that they were going to start a consideration of the bill. And that was the instructions I left before I went to attend to other activities,” he expressed.

“It was Friday, and members wanted to go home early to their constituencies when we were going to sit today, so I knew they wouldn’t have completed it. But all of a sudden, I read about this passage, and later I saw on TV all the things that happened,” Bagbin stated.

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