The pro-LGBTQ billboard mounted on the Accra-Tema Motorway has been pulled down by city authorities after a request from anti-LGBTQ activists.
The Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Nartey George, tweeted that “the billboard has fall ‘frat’.”
“Information reaching me is that the obnoxious LGBTQI+ billboard has been removed this evening after our press engagement today. We salute the authorities for their swift response. We are a country of laws and would fight till the end to protect our cultural sovereignty,” Sam George tweeted on Thursday, June 9.
He added that “We can get results from the authorities (NDC or NPP) if we unite and collectively demand the changes we desire. True power belongs to the people. The billboard has fall ‘frat’. Power to our cultural sovereignty. #PassTheBillNow”
Sam George, one of the sponsors of the anti-LGBTQ bill in Parliament, earlier gave the Ghana Police a 24-hour ultimatum to pull down the billboard promoting the activities of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer.
He threatened to mobilize some citizens to take down the billboard should the Inspector General of Police – Dr. George Akuffo Dampare – fail to honour their ultimatum.
“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.
