Communications Minister Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has admitted she had experimented with lesbianism, in a revelation that whips up long-held speculations about her sexuality.
According to the controversial minister in an interview with Accra-based Starr FM, she experimented with lesbianism known in secondary schools as ‘supi supi’in what is akin to institutional sexual molestation in Ghanaian secondary schools.
According to Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful, that part of her life was just a passing phase in which she had to explore her sexuality even though she was attracted to the opposite sex.
She said she was lucky then that social media was non-existent, otherwise, those days of her sexual escapades would have been a permanent record that she would have been forced to live with the rest of her life if any of the episodes leaked to the public.
Even though the Ablekuma West MP said that sexual exploration was in her past, there have been inherent hushed speculation among some quarters that she has probably not completely discarded the sexual taste. However, it is difficult to ascertain the veracity or otherwise of the rumours.
“Most of us who went through the boarding system would have had some exposure particularly in girls’ schools and in some mixed schools as well with ‘supism’. We did it. I don’t make any apologies about it, but I like my men,” she told the host of Starr Chat, a profiling episode of the Accra-based radio station.
“… I mean, I won’t lie about it; we’ve all done it. At some stage, we’ve experimented with stuff like that but it was a passing phase. Some people never grow out of it and don’t see it as one of the secondary school things that we indulge in, in our exploration,” She added.
“You’re exploring your sexuality so you do all kinds of silly things growing up. Thank God there were no social media when we were growing up; you will leave a permanent record of some of these crazy things….”