One of the sponsors of the anti-LGBTQ bill in Parliament, Sam George has given the Ghana Police a 24-hour ultimatum to pull down a billboard promoting the activities of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer.
According to Sam George, he would mobilize some citizens to take down the billboard should the Inspector General of Police – Dr. George Akuffo Dampare – fail to honour their ultimatum.
The Ningo-Prampram MP said that their attention was drawn to the LGBTQ billboard which he described as an illegality that flies in the face of Articles 11 and 26 of the 1992 Constitution which talks about Ghana’s cultural sovereignty.
The said billboard was mounted along the Accra-Tema Motorway.
“As sponsors of the bill before Parliament and as Members of Parliament who represent the aspirations and will of the Ghanaian people, we have deemed it important to show up here today to register in the strongest term our displeasure, our discomfort and our abhorrence for unholy, uncultural and untraditional advertisement that has been put up on a very iconic road the N1, the Tema motorway.”
“We are by this, calling on the Inspector General of Police Dr Akuffo Dampare to immediately, within the next twenty-four hours, carry out the necessary security operations to ensure that this billboard, which is an affront to the 1992 Constitution is taken down in conjunction with the MCE for the area. Failure to take action, as citizens we will take action as enjoined by the Constitution to defend the Constitution”, he said after visiting the location with some legislators and anti-LGBTQ activists.
Meanwhile, the minority caucus in parliament, who are unhappy about the delay in the passage of the anti-LGBTQ bill, have said that they would not pass any bills from government until the anti-LGBTQ bill goes through.
