Independent presidential candidate, Akwasi Addae Odike has urged the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to assent to the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values bill popularly known as Anti-Gay bill which has been passed by Parliament.
The Founder and Leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP) who was speaking on Angel Morning Show (AMS), expressed his displeasure with the rainbow community, viewing it as alien to the Ghanaian culture.
“If you come to Ghana, our traditional settings nobody likes this deceptive lifestyle, no tribe find pleasure in it…,” he said.
He further went on to state that the Ghanaian society do not welcome the activities of LGBTQ+ in the country as it is against the country’s customs and religious beliefs.
“It has become clear, it is something Ghanaians collectively are not happy with what the foreigners want to impose on us,” he stated.
He blamed the constant pressure on Ghanaian leaders to accept the activities of LGBTQ+ on the failure of the country’s leaders to judiciously develop the country with resources generated from within.
“The one who provides for you will dictate what you should do…and that is what is happening because we have failed to develop our country with our own resources,” he stated.
This, he added, is part of the reasons why the American embassy had the audacity to warn the President not to assent the anti-gay bill into law.
“How? In what way? Because our leaders, when we vote for them, they go round cup in hand begging whilst we have every thing in the country,” he stated.
According to him, we have been to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) several times, and still mismanaged the money given.
“We have been to IMF 17 times, so are we animals? A place you have gone before, and you keep on going, what is this? It does not bring any result,” he stated.
