General News of Monday, 2 December 2024

Source: classfmonline.com

Ghana's anti-LGBTQ bill not for persecution but against promotion of gender theories – Nii Ayikoi Otoo

Former Ambassador of Ghana to Canada, Nii Ayikoi Otoo Former Ambassador of Ghana to Canada, Nii Ayikoi Otoo

Ghana's Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021, is not against the personhood and disposition of members of the LGBTQI+ community, a former Ambassador of Ghana to Canada, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, has said.

"It's the promotion they are talking [against, rather]," he asserted.

He sat with the Class Media Group (CMG) Chief Executive and host of the brand-new Master of the Game show, Kwesi Kyei Darkwah (KKD).

Describing people of the LGBTQI+ fold, the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice said, "These are natural people who have the natural defects."

He indicated he had the same defect; in his case, having a body that suggests femininity.

"Like me – my mother always told me, 'You, when you wear no-collar [shirts], you look like a female, your body, and all that'," Ayikoi Otoo explained.

He said these features are visible very early in an individual's life.

"Ghana is not hostile to queer people," he argued.

"We've tolerated them, calling them 'Kojo the Girl' [for instance]," he noted.

However, "should we promote it, and tell a girl that, 'You're born naturally a girl, but if you feel like a boy, do transgender things and call yourself a boy?'" he quizzed.

"Is this proper, helping and promoting them?"

He suggested that the gender theory prevalent among queer people planted foreign and concerning thoughts in the minds of innocent people.

The diplomat cited teachers who "force" left-handed pupils to change by slapping their hands, intimating it was an example of an effective corrective measure.

KKD, a left-handed personality, said when his teacher punished him, his father confronted them. He suggested that such approaches to people who were different from most members of society betrayed a feeble mind.

"We are saying [we are against] the promotion. That's what I understand," he responded.

"We know them. A lot of the men – Kojo the Girl – go into hairstyling. We know them. Let them live. Let them exist. I don't think that law is aimed toward them. They are saying the promotion, teaching people about gender [theories], and the rest is what we don't want."