Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament Is Deluded Over His Anti-gay Sentiments – UN

Mike Ocquaye makes his stance clear.

Speaker of Parliament, Mike Ocquaye declared that member of parliament are against homosexuality. Furthermore, his comments came after Nana Addo had an interview about the same issue.

Moreover, he stated that the public that elected them and therefore Ghanaians should rest assured that they were never going to legalize homosexuality under any circumstances.

However, his response didn’t go down well with the UN. Therefore, they’ve their response. The United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Prof. Philip Alston made his comments in an interview. Furthermore, he undertook a Human Rights fact-finding visit to Ghana to assess government efforts to eradicating poverty.

Prof. Alston said Prof. Oquaye’s comment is a sign of delusion because the number of gay people in Ghana is quite significant.

“I believe that if he thinks there is not a very significant proportion of gay people in Ghana, he is deluding himself. You cannot wish away a physical fact. The percentage of gay people in any population is significant… I don’t think it is appropriate for politicians to publicly align themselves with hateful positions against any other population…I think if he comes out and says that people with a certain kind of sexual orientation are not allowed to be themselves in this country that is equally unacceptable, that is what human rights are all about.”