The previous Part of Parliament for Jomoro, Samia Yaba Nkrumah, has called on President Akufo-Addo not to consent to the Charge on Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, commonly alluded to as the anti-LGBTQ+ Charge.
This Charge, which was passed in Parliament on February 28, 2024, looks for to criminalize LGBTQ+ exercises and forbid their advancement, backing, and financing.
It proposes punishments extending from a 6 month to 3-year imprison term for guilty parties, whereas those included in advancing or supporting such exercises seem confront 3 to 5 a long time of detainment.
In any case, the Charge has been contradicted by numerous counting the Joined together States Envoy to Ghana, Virginia Evelyn Palmer, who has debilitated to separate trade relations with Ghana in the event that it gets to be Law.
In bolster, Samia Nkrumah in an meet with Every day Realistic depicted the Charge as unreasonably “harsh and unjust”.
She has communicated her restriction, focusing that the enactment may cultivate division, a result she passionately contradicts.
“I supplicate the President does not sign it, or consent to it. I accept it may be a brutal, unforgiving and unjustifiable law, and we do not require it. We are against assault, pedophilia, against all these circumstances that individuals appear to be panicked of gays and I think we got to teach ourselves.
But most vitally I do not bolster anything that brings division and torments the people of Ghana. We are all Ghanaians, and we got to secure and watch out of each other.”
