The proponent of the anti-LGBTQ Bill and Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram constituency, Samuel Nartey George has slammed US Vice President, Kamala Harris for her comments charging the Government of Ghana to drop the anti-LGBTQ bill and uphold the rights of homosexuals.
The
Ningo-Prampram lawmaker said Kamala Harris and her government’s record on human
rights are too dented for her to be giving Ghana lectures on defending the
rights of citizens.
Speaking
on Eyewitness News on Citi FM, Mr. Nartey George said “Kamala
Harris is the last place or person to go for lectures on human rights. If you
want to learn morality, you don’t go to a brothel. Kamala Harris and her
government’s record on human rights is appalling, and it is not one that
Ghanaians will want to learn from.”
Mr. Nartey
George also slammed President Akufo-Addo for defying the position of his
government and shying away from telling Kamala Harris in the face the position
of the country on homosexuality.
“For the
president to run away from his own government’s position on the Bill is
unbelievable and worrying but let me assure you that we are not going to be
cowed by the undemocratic comments of the American Vice President. The American
people should be coming to Ghana to learn a few things from our Parliament when
it comes to issues of lawmaking because we will be in a good position to help
them”.
Kamala Harris
during a joint press conference with President Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House
underscored the need to widen and respect the right of the LGBTQ community.
President
Akufo-Addo during the conference disclosed that his government had intervened
to modify the current anti-LGBTQ Bill which has since attracted wide
condemnation including from the Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin who
described the comments of the American Veep as undemocratic.
The Speaker of
Parliament, Alban Bagbin earlier took a dig at Kamala Harris over her
remarks on Ghana’s LGBTQ bill.
“As the Vice
President of the USA, Kamala Harris did yesterday, these things should not be
tolerated, that is undemocratic. What is democracy? That someone should have to
dictate to me what is good and what is bad? Unheard of, because we have decided
to devalue ourselves and go begging? Come on, we have more than enough. God has
created more than enough for every person, the Bill will be passed,” Bagbin
added
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