-Powerful LGBTQ++, State Agents Fingered.
Whatsup News can report that security details of Speaker Alban Sumana Bagbin are currently undergoing serious training at the Asutuary Military camp, following fears that the Speaker’s life may be in danger for his hardline stance against advocacy for the Lesbians, Gay, Bisexuals, Transgender, Queers, etc. (LGBTQ++) in Ghana.
A former media liaison, who would not want his identity disclosed, told Whatsup News that, powerful LGBTQ++ lobbyists are not happy with the stance of the Speaker as a Private Member Bill titled “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021” is set to be passed by the Ghanaian Parliament to outlaw LGBTQ++ advocacy in the country.
Speaker Bagbin has made no secret of his intense abhorrence of LGBTQ activities in Ghana. He recently summoned the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Gregory Andrews and told him point-blank that Ghana will not legalise LGBTQ++ advocacy.
Andrews had courted the wrath of the Speaker when he defied Ghanaian statutes by inaugurating an LGBTQ++ headquarters in Accra. The office was promptly shut down by security agents.
According to our source, the LGBTQ++ lobby group will attempt to use soft skills to persuade the Speaker, but if that fails, they are likely to activate an operation code named ‘mask of rogues’ to eliminate Hon. Bagbin, and possibly the main spearhead of the Bill, Samuel George, the Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament.
An aide to the Speaker told Whatsup News that a few days ago, Hon. Bagbin met with his security details to evaluate the threat and he is not taking the threat lightly, particularly after his close shave with a fatal road accident in August that killed his dispatch rider, Chief Inspector Kaakyire Abednego.
The Accident happened at the Juaso Water Works at the Asante Akyem South Municipality in the Ashanti Region off the Accra – Kumasi Highway.
In total, Mr. Bagbin recounts how he has so far escaped three road accidents, the first three were before he became a Speaker of Parliament, the last one missed him narrowly, because he was not in his vehicle at the time, having sent his advance team to evaluate the grounds on his way to the northern part of the country for an official tour.
Meanwhile, there are also fears within the close circles of the Speaker that the government’s covert agents may be priming to take advantage of the security threat, where elimination of the Speaker will immediately give advantage to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Parliament.
Currently, both the ruling NPP and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are equally balanced in the House with 137 seats each. However, the NPP has a slight upper hand currently because an independent candidate in the legislative chamber has pledged to vote along the lines of the NPP.
This advantage is, somehow, counter-balanced by Mr. Bagbin who is a dye-in-the-wool NDC and has immense power in the chamber.
Whatsup News gathered from Bagbin’s close circles that the governing party has all the incentives to see the exit of the Speaker, and thus, they are not taking the suspected security threats lightly.
Incidentally, President Akufo-Addo’s personal lawyer and long-time friend, Akoto Ampaw, is leading a pro-gay group of intellectuals and middle-class Ghanaians to push back at the ongoing process in Parliament to pass a law to prohibit LGBTQI+ advocacy in Ghana.
On Friday, the group sent a memorandum to Parliament’s Select Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs urging it not to pass the controversial Bill.
In addition to Lawyer Akoto Ampaw, Professor Emerita Takyiwaa Manuh also signed the memorandum.
Other assenters to the memorandum are Professor Kwame KariKari, Professor Kofi Gyimah-Boadi, Professor Audrey Gadzekpo, Dr. Rose Kutin-Mensah, Dr. Yao Graham, Professor Dzodzi Tsikata and Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh.
The rest are Mr. Kwasi Adu-Amankwah, Dr. Kojo Asante, Mr. Kofi Ofei-Nkansah, Akunu Dake, Tetteh Homerku-Adjjei and Professor Raymond Atuguba.
According to them, the bill’s purported premise on religious beliefs is skewed and dangerous claiming that even Jesus Christ would have embraced homosexuals and lesbians.