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.
I have always maintained that koku anyidoho has never made any sensible statement. Either some people do not understand the english language or are playing plane ignorance. The prez admitted to legalizing gayism. His first response was culturally, that practice is not acceptable to the Ghanaian society. He went on to say that he forsees that at some future date, some group of people would judicially raise it in a court of law and that is bound to happen. This simple statement and koku.does not understand. Lets go back to his former schools and check his academic records.
In fact kwabena if you are saying that Anyidoho makes no sense statement, then know that you also lack the ability to interpret and make meaning out of statements: because the president said it is bound to happen especially when pressure comes from individuals and groups. Is not similar Case the late president Mills faced and what was his reaction? To me the president should have unequivocally objected against it. Is not a Christian, is he not the who organized a whole Thanksgiving service after election, does his Bible tells him to change and do evil because people pressure him? Let us not follow politics and do evil and finally go to hell. Follow not multitude to do evil.
Its very sad hearing this type of comments from such people. So as an elder of community can’t you for speak sense to children of Ghana to emulate. Koku have you forgotten that Mahama already dines with gay President. Or do you want to connect Nana too.