{"id":335648,"date":"2017-07-11T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=335648"},"modified":"2018-02-21T05:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T05:22:16","slug":"were-fed-up-with-demands-for-gay-rights-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/were-fed-up-with-demands-for-gay-rights-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re fed up with demands for gay rights \u2013 Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye, has warned that leaders in countries like Ghana would not countenance the aggressive push by external forces to accept acts such as homosexuality, bestiality among others.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”q1iaFZifUJvVvM0dSAEPtzNXZGU4wUsx”]His caution follows a courtesy call on him today [Tuesday] by Amnesty International, where they made demands including a scrapping of the death penalty from the statute books.<\/p>\n

But the Speaker said African leaders are getting tired of some of these demands on the basis of human rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing what Tony Blair said which I personally wrote him a letter that if we do not go the homosexual way, it was going to affect their aid to us. Honestly in view of these developments, we Africans are also concerned about certain things that may appear really intellectual \u2026It is becoming a human right in some countries. The right to do homosexuality. The right for a human being to sleep with an animal. We are tired of some of these things and we must be frank about it. ..I think all these matters need to be seriously interrogated \u2026,” said the Speaker.<\/p>\n

Scottish MPs hit hard at Mahama over gay rights<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In 2016, some Members of the Scottish Parliament<\/a><\/strong><\/span> called on their government to confront John Dramani Mahama, who was President at the time, on Ghana\u2019s alleged abuses of its lesbian and gay citizens.<\/p>\n

Naomi McAuliffe, Amnesty International\u2019s programme Director in Scotland had said her organisation received regular reports that LGBT people faced police harassment.<\/p>\n

Ghana is one of 75 countries which consider homosexuality as illegal.<\/p>\n

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By: Marian Ansah & Duke Mensah Opoku \/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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