A Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo struggled to answer a question on homosexuality because he wants to please the gay community.
According to Koku Anyidoho, Nana Addo is desperately seeking help from the homosexual community to fund the one district, one district, one factory project and therefore is forced to make such comments to please his ‘pay masters.’
“The President is desperate; he is looking for money to fulfill his promises…His one million dollars per constituency, his free SHS education, and one-district one-factory among others. Now the President is prepared to wine and dine with anybody at all to make money” he said on Accra-based Neat FM.
Mr Anyidoho made these comments after President Akufo-Addo gave subtle hint that his government could legalize homosexuality when there’s a strong push for it.
In his interview, President Akufo-Addo said changing Ghana’s laws to legalize homosexuality is not a matter which is “on the agenda” but “bound to happen”.
Asked by the interviewer about why Ghana’s laws still criminalize homosexuality, Nana Akufo-Addo said: “This is a socio-cultural issue, if you like,” adding: “I don’t believe that in Ghana, so far, a sufficiently strong coalition has emerged which is having that impact on public opinion that will say: ‘Change it [the law], let’s then have a new paradigm in Ghana’”.
The Ghanaian leader, however, said: “I think that it is something that is bound to happen”.
Asked by the interviewer: “What’s going to provoke it, what’s going to make it happen?” President Akufo-Addo said: “Oh, like elsewhere in the world, the activities of individuals [and] groups”.
He recalled how countries such as England, which, in the past, abhorred homosexuality, have over the years succumbed to pressure from LGBT lobbyists to amend their laws to accommodate same-sex relationship.
But Koku Anyidoho said the President is exciting the international homosexual community to enable him secure funds to run all his promises such as the one district, one factory and Free SHS programme which he believes has been hit by financial challenge.
The NDC deputy Chief Scribe said the president’s response, which was quite deliberate, shows his administration is cash-strapped.
'Akufo-Addo ready to wine and dine with homosexuals'
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