News:
June 6, 2011
The NDC Member of Parliament for Adentan, Kojo Adu – Asare, has called for the enactment of strict laws which will outlaw the practice of homosexuality and Lesbianism in the country.
He said the practice is increasingly becoming a national concern and it is important that country takes immediate measures to deal with the menace by arresting and prosecuting those involved in the act.
In recent times the nation has been greeted with a lot of incidents of homosexuality and lesbianism. The immoral act has penetrated into the schools with reports of some teachers having affairs with their students.
Fresh in the minds of Ghanaians is the case in which a Mathematics teacher of Adisadel College, Richard Arthur Payne, was arrested by the Police last week for allegedly sodomising six students of the school. Only one of the students is said to have been able to come out to reveal his ordeal to the school authorities. The victim (name withheld) was said to have fallen sick, and when he was interrogated by the doctors at the hospital where he had been sent, he unraveled the Mathematics teacher’s unholy activities. Another lesbian tutor in Takoradi Polytechnic is reported to have had affair with female students in the school.
Hon. Kojo Adu- Asare who is worried by the increase in the social canker has called on the state to crack down on the practice especially when there have been reports that the prevalence rate of HIV/AIDs and other diseases is higher in homosexuals.
Speaking on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo show, Hon. Kojo Adu Asare cited the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible where the people were involved in homosexual activities and were destroyed by fire, he warned that Ghana may receive the wrath of God just like the people of Sodom and Gomorrah if nothing is done immediately to curtail the practice.
“This abominable act may cause the hand of God to descend heavily on Ghana’’ he said.
He called for a national discussion to discuss the homosexuality question dispassionately and to find an appropriate response to it.
Story by : Kwadwo Anim/ghanamps.gov.gh