One of the Conveners of the #FixTheCountry campaign, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has criticised the anti-LGBT+ bill as lacking depth.
In one of a series of Facebook comments about the bill, the Cambridge Researcher and law consultant described the draft legislation currently before Parliament as stupid.
“I have never read a more dumb and stupid document,†he said.
According to him, the bill "shows the dissolving line between bigotry and blockheadedness."
"These MPs can’t even draft a bill that is readable if their lives depended on it. For all their faults they nailed it on section 22. If you call anyone gay, you are going to jail,†he wrote.
The bill is titled “The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021†and it prescribes severe sanctions against various activities of the LGBT+ community.
The bill when passed into law will punish a person who willfully commits a “grossly indecent act†with summary conviction, to a term of imprisonment of not less than six months and not more than one year.
According to the bill, a “grossly indecent act†is a misdemeanour and it means:
“A public show of amorous relations between or among persons of the same sex;
“A public show of amorous relations between to among persons where one or more of the persons have undergone gender sex reassignment, or
“Intentional cross-dressing to portray that person is of a gender different from the gender assigned at birth with intent to engage in an act prohibited under the act.
The bill was sponsors by legislators such as Sam Nartey George, MP for Ningo Prampram; Emmanuel Bedzrah, MP for Ho West; Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, MP for North Tongu; Andy Appiah Kubi, MP for Asante Akim North; John Ntim Fordjour, MP for Assin South; and Kwaku Asante-Boateng, MP for Asante Akim South.
Full text: Ghana's anti-LGBT+ bill
