Freddie Blay, the countrywide chairman of the ruling governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stated the current furore over activities of the LGBTQI+ network in Ghana is unnecessary.
To mark Pride month, LGBTQ+ activists established billboards withinside the capital Accra and different towns with the inscription “Love, Tolerance and Acceptance.”
Rights activists in Ghana are protesting after a crowd, advised by a few MPs and opinion leaders, tore down the billboards that promoted tolerance closer to the LGBTQ network.
Talking to Kwaku Nhyira-Addo on Townhall Talk on Asaase Radio (17 June), Blay stated there’s an excessive amount of hypocrisy surrounding the difficulty in Ghana.
“If humans need to be gays, it have to be their problem. I won’t pass beforehand to be a persecutor of folks that desires to be collectively as guy and person and woman,” the previous MP stated.
“I assume there’s an excessive amount of hypocrisy approximately it. Emotions were excited over it to the volume that we aren’t sober over it. I actually do now no longer see the hullabaloo approximately it. We have to permit them in the event that they need to.
“I don’t enroll in gay as a preference due to the fact I’m now no longer attracted through that, however I don’t need to enter humans’s bedrooms. I don’t need to peer what they may be doing,” Blay stated.
Angry citizens raze LGBTQ+ billboard in Tamale
Some indignant citizens of Tamale withinside the Northern Region have razed a billboard allegedly projecting the sports of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) withinside the metropolis.
It comes slightly every week after a comparable billboard became pulled down at the Accra-Tema Motorway that supposedly promotes LGBTQI+ sports.
The Tamale billboard had the inscription: ”Love, tolerance, and acceptance” with hues generally related to the LGBTQ+ network.
