Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt has criticized President Nana Addo for not being straightforward with his responses on the issue of homosexuality.
The President has recently come under massive bashing following his responses to a question on the LGBTQ+ community during his joint press conference with US Vice President Kamala Harris.
When asked about Ghana's stance on the issue, the President talked about the country's anti-LGBTQ bill saying “the bill is going through the Parliament. The Attorney General has found it necessary to speak to the committee (the constitutional and legal committee of parliament) about it regarding the constitutionality . . . of several of its provisions. The parliament is dealing with it. At the end of the process, I will come in”.
He stated that the President has addressed the LGBTQ+ brouhaha on three different platforms and on each platform, his statements have been different.
"The President has shared his thought on three ocassions, when you listen to the first one it is different from the second one, when you listen to the third one it is different from the first one, one person you have three different thoughts, why? . . . It is a worry, as President when you talk you need to be firm and plain so we all know your stance . . . " Kwesi Pratt said.
This, to him, it is a cause for worry, so he advised Nana Addo saying "as a President, you have to firm on your position but for this one, you can't know where he stands when he talks".
" . . What worries me is the inconsistencies . . . if you won't state your position just keep quiet," Kwesi Pratt told Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" show while addressing the President's statements on the subject.
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Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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In fact, Manasseh made my day today with his civil-minded contribution to the LGBTQ+ Bill that is yet to be debated and passed in Parliament. The majority has the vote, but the opposing views must be respected. In a manner that promotes co-existence in a civilized, reproductive, human-centered community. I have nothing against the LGBTQ+ Act if the sexual act and demeanor are kept secret so as to protect our kids from seeing it as a normal thing and to safeguard our reproductive system as a human race. God created us in a normal way such that we can reproduce ourselves in his image through our sexual intercourse, and any act that defiles our existence in generations to come belies God's eternal creation of human beings. Above all, God has given us the rational ability to live civilly in diversity, bearing in mind our agonies and shortcomings as human beings.