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Sam George tops Twitter trends over Ghana's anti-gay bill

By George Nyavor
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One of the parliamentarians championing a bill to criminalise LGBT+ activism and activities has topped Twitter trends on Friday after snippets of the bill hit the internet.

Sam Nartey George, Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, and six other MPs have succeeded in laying the “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021” before Parliament.

The bill prescribes severe sanctions against various activities of the LGBT+ community.

Although the bill was co-sponsored by legislators such as Emmanuel Bedzrah, MP, Ho West; Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, North Tongu; Andy Appiah Kubi, Asante Akim North; John Ntim Fordjour, Assin South; and Kwaku Asante-Boateng, Asante Akim South, Sam George is trending because many see him as the most vocal among the anti-LGBT legislators.

While some tweets criticise him for wasting his energy on such a bill, others commended him for his unrelenting anti-gay stance.

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.

Below are some of the comments on Twitter about the new bill and Sam George.

https://twitter.com/JoewackleGh/status/1418531778827063296

https://twitter.com/IamHammonds/status/1418530108340572160

 

 

 

 

 

 

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