Plans by a Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) group to stage an international conference in Ghana has sent anger through the Ghanaian public.
The Regional Conference of LGBT slated in Ghana from July 27 to 31, 2020 is scheduled to take place in Accra under the theme: “Sankofa: Looking back to our roots – Reclaiming our right.”
The event is being planned by a South African company Pan Africa ILGA and it will be the 5th edition.
The announcement has the Ghanaian social media abuzz.
One social media commentator wrote: “This so-called conference won’t happen, mark my words. It will never happen cos if it does,i can assure you none of the participants will leave the venue alive. God will empower some of us to descend on them. We will not allow this nonsense to ever happen in this country. Never, ever!”
Another wrote: “there should be no place for anything LGBT in Ghana.”
Ghana, like many African countries, is quite conservative on LGBT issues, with several clandestine attempts to formalise the sexual orientation deflected by Ghanaian lawmakers, religious organisations and vocal individuals.
The Ghanaian Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Aaron Ocquaye is a strong critic of LGBTs, saying Ghana will never legalise homosexuality.
Law lecturer and fierce critic of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) movement, Moses Foh-Amoaning has on countless occasions slammed efforts to introduce homosexuality into the country by foreign entities describing the LGBT as an anomaly that would be detrimental to the citizenry.