The University of Ghana has refuted claims made by Moses Foh Amoaning over claims that the School has amended its statutes to promote LGBTQ+ activities.
According to the University of Ghana, Moses Foh Amoaning’s claims are false, misleading, and defamatory.
UG management, in a statement, revealed that the University’s recent review of its Statutes (2024) was conducted strictly in accordance with the governance procedures.
The statement read, “ The University wishes to state emphatically and without ambiguity that the allegations made by Mr Foh-Amoaning are entirely false, misleading and defamatory.
Clarification on changes in the University’s Statutes
The University’s recent review of its Statutes (2024) was conducted strictly in accordance with the governance procedures prescribed by national laws and University regulations, and we wish to state as follows:
• The University of Ghana operates strictly within the legal and regulatory framework of the Republic of Ghana
The revised Statutes of the University do not depart from national law; nos 1o the statutes introduce any provision that endorses, promotes, or “admits” LGBT+ activities as alleged.
• The changes in the Statutes merely involved replacing gender specific pronouns such as “he”, “him”, “she” or “her” with gender- neutral terms such as “they” and “their”, and additional linguistic adjustments made to represent both male and female in order to eliminate the need to continuously state he or she/him or her etc.it the Statutes.
The revisions are consistent with developments in the English language over the past two decades, where the singular “they/their/them” has become widely accepted in reputable academic, legal and religious texts. For instance, the 2011 New International Version (NIV) of the Bible uses “they/them” to refer to a singular antecedent, as in James 4:17: “If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them”, the statement clarifies.
The University further revealed it had responded to the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values inquiries and condemned Mr Foh-Amoaning n “unwarranted” and “disrespectful” attempt to personalise an institutional governance matter through an attack on the vice-chancellor.
They further demanded an immediate retraction of the statements made by Mr Foh-Amoaning, as well as a public apology to the vice-chancellor and the university community; failure will lead to appropriate legal action under Ghanaian law.
UG’s statement follows: Moses Foh Amoaning, a private legal practitioner and Executive Secretary of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, has blown an alarm on the University of Ghana.
According to Foh Amoaning, the University of Ghana has changed its admission policy to accommodate LGBTQ+ activities.
He further accused the UG Vice Chancellor and her council of ignoring their letters concerning the school’s change in its admission policy.
Speaking on Onua TV, Moses Foh Amoaning alleged, “The University of Ghana, which is a public university, has accepted transgenderism as part of its statutes.
The Vice Chancellor, a female, who goes to church and her council have changed their University statutes to admit transgenderism and LGBTQ+ activities, we will not understand it”.
Foh Amoaning added, “When we wrote a letter to her, she did not even show us the respect of responding to our letters. When we issued a press conference, I heard she called my office, saying they are going to respond to our letter.
This is the University of Ghana. Look at the student there, you want to change the perception in the University of Ghana. The things going on in the Secondary schools, if we speak to them, we will not have time”.
Foh Amoaning also highlighted that parliament passing the anti LGBTQ bill and President Mahama assenting to it will strengthen Ghana’s fight against those promoting and advocating for LGBTQ activities.
He added, “When the bill is passed and the president assents to it, it will help, because it will make it easier for the police to enforce the laws against those promoting and engaged in advocacy”.
It will stop the advocacy and the sponsorship, and it will stop the recruitment of our children and the grooming”.
See the statement below:
