Moses Foh-Amoaning, a Private legal practitioner and Executive Secretary of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, has slammed President John Mahama following his recent remarks over the anti-LGBTQ Bill.
According to Western countries and multilateral organisations, they are forcing Ghana to accept homosexuality, arguing that President Mahama must see this as another form of slavery.
He argued that President Mahama must treat the anti-LGBTQ Bill the same way he treated the United Nations resolution that recognised slavery as the gravest crime against humanity.
Speaking in a recent interview on Asempa FM, Foh-Amoaning stated, “Let me speak directly to my good friend the president. Look, Mr President, in all humility, the slave trade was ended in 1807, 2018 years ago. We have gone to the US and gotten a resolution that says it (the slave trade) is the crime of the century; that’s fine.
“And so, Mr President, can’t you see that this thing that the UN agencies – WHO, UNESCO, UNDP, all of them – have joined forces to stop the passage of the law (anti-gay law), and they are pumping money into the country… so we have these things the same people who created slavery Britain, Denmark are the same people pushing the country for men to be sleeping with men,” he said in the Twi dialect.
He added, “This sort of behaviour that they are forcing on us, Mr President, can’t you see this is a modern form of slavery?”
Foh-Amoaning argued that President Mahama should have used the opportunity to speak for Ghanaians.
He stated, “Instead of you speaking for us, you are saying it is not your priority. I don’t understand it. Also, even the bill that has been passed, you are saying it would take some time”.
“Mr President, you are going the same way as the former president, but this time, because I’m your good friend, I would tell you. Ghanaians are very serious it is our leadership”, he added.
His comments follow, President John Dramani Mahama who has said that despite the passage of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, commonly known as the anti-LGBTQ+ bill, a few issued has been raised.
According to John Mahama, the passage of the anti-LGBTQI Bill by Parliament won’t be a law yet, as a few procedural hurdles that must be resolved before it reaches his desk for assent.
Speaking during a Chatham House interview on Monday, June 1, as part of his trip to the United Kingdom, President Mahama stated, “Parliament has been considering it, and it was supposed to have been passed last week. There have been a few issues raised.
“One, that there wasn’t a quorum when it was passed. That’s an issue that has come up. And then, two, there were some procedural lapses in terms of its passage.
“I just got some communication that the Speaker was reading a statement to address the issue of the lapses in the passage of the Bill. And so, like I said, when I was the opposition leader, the President had a number of options in this matter. It must come for assent.
“And so, once the President gets it, you go through it, because you are not part of the discussion in Parliament. And so, the legal representative, the legal counsel in the Presidency and the Attorney General would sit on it, because it was a private member’s motion. This was not a government bill.
“And so, we’ll look at it and make sure that everything is in order before the President is advised to assent”.
He added, “The President has another option if there are some things that he thinks are a problem. He can refer it to the Council of State for advice.
The Council of State is an advisory body to the President. And so, they’ll take a look at it, and then they’ll advise the President. And if there are issues — substantial issues that are raised — the President would return the Bill to Parliament, indicating exactly what the issues are.
And so, there’s still quite a while to go before that Bill becomes law”.
Watch the video below:
@adom1063fm 🗣️| “President Mahama Is Going the Same Way as the Former President” —Moses Foh-Amoaning speaks on the Anti-LGBTQ Bill #DwasoNsem
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