There was palpable tension in the Ghanaian Parliament on Wednesday as lawmakers delibrated upon the “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021” also known as the anti-LGBTQ Bill.
Speaking in defense of the bill, the Minister for Communication and Digitalisation, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful condemned oral and anal sex, a move which attracted the wrath of other lawmakers who were of contrary opinion.
The motion for the bill was moved on the floor of Parliament for a second reading by Mr Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, a National Democratic Congress (NDC), MP for Ho West and it was supported by Rev John Ntim Fordjour, an NPP MP for Assin South
According to Owusu-Ekuful, a Member of Parliament (MP) representing Ablekuma through the Patriotic Party (NPP) on the floor of the Parliament , those practising anal and oral sex are breaching the Ghanaian law.
The lawmaker also called on women who were compelled by their husbands into engaging in oral and anal sex to report the incidents to the police for assistance, a report by Ghana Business News said.
Her words: “Mr Speaker, for the avoidance of doubt and the information of all Ghanaians, oral sex, anal sex regardless of whether it is between woman and man, man and man or woman and woman is illegal under our law and so, if there is anybody who is practising oral sex or anal sex please note that what you are doing is against the existing law of this country,” she said.
It was gathered that the purpose of the Bill is to provide for proper human sexual rights and Ghanaian Family Values proscribe lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) and related activities.
“Mr Speaker, some wives have faced threats of divorce from their husbands for refusing to participate in such sexual acts,” Owusu-Ekuful further said.
“I will urge any woman or young girl being subjected to any such practice under the guise of heterosexual sex to know that what they are being asked to do is against and law and must seek help from the Police.”
“Mr Speaker, anal sex is unnatural carnal knowledge, use of sex toys is unnatural carnal knowledge.
In a viral video seen by Truth Live News and shared by one @SIKAOFFICIAL1 trouble started after a fellow lawmaker, Murtala Mohammed, the MP for Tamale Central accused Owusu-Ekuful of involvement in ‘homosexuality’.
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