Ghanaian Gospel Musician, Sonnie Badu has urged foreign countries that want homosexuality to be legalized to make asylum visas available to enable gays in Ghana to easily travel to such countries and live there permanently.
Sonnie Badu’s suggestion follows some rumors that some of the MPs who submitted the anti-gay bill to parliament have been denied visas to some foreign countries.
Sonnie Badu in his submission suggested that the countries that support the LGBTGI+ community should get proper medication for HIV and other diseases associated with LGBTQI+. That, he said, was a better solution to the LGBTQI+ brouhaha in Ghana.
Sonnie Badu wrote on his Facebook page: “I think I have a solution for this LGBTQ brouhaha going on in Ghana. It’s culture versus enforcement. So, this is the solution since some of the Ministers of state are being denied visas for this reason.
“All the foreign countries that don’t want the law enforced, should make asylum visas available so those who are practicing it will travel to all respective countries to live permanently, and also get better medication for diseases like HIV, and better Men’s ‘dross’ should they need it. (People go turn LGBT by force) because life can be hell in Africa where basic human right privileges are denied; but on a serious note, it will bring peace”.
Sonnie Badu further deliberating on the issue, claimed that based on information he has received, several young men who are gays in Ghana got introduced into the act by some rich men who promised to help them. According to him, most young men and women do it to survive. Therefore, he believes his suggestion will bring peace as “there are more pressing issues in Ghana than this battle”.
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Eight members of Ghana’s Parliament jointly submitted a private bill to push for the criminalization of LGBTQI+ activities in the country.
The LGBTQI+ Bill, which is termed as a ‘Bill on the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values’, was presented to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. The proponents of the bill want the promotion, advocacy, funding, and acts of homosexuality to be criminalized in the country.
Although the Bill has received massive support from the public, especially the clergy, the eight have been backlashed by persons who are also not in favor of the bill with some attacking Sam George directly.
Currently, a private legal practitioner, George Bernard Shaw has served a notice to file a suit challenging the anti-LGBTQI+ bill at the Supreme Court.
He believes the bill contravenes basic human rights enshrined in the constitution and treaties signed by the government of Ghana.
In an interview, he said: “The bill is against basic human rights because Ghana has subscribed to a lot of international conventions and treaties that prohibit discrimination. People are confusing morality with law. If you identify as a homosexual, you are likely or liable to be imprisoned and for me who is a human rights activist, I can be jailed for promoting, propagating, and advancing or even explaining why? Like what I am doing now when the bill is passed, I can be jailed and this should not happen in a democratic dispensation”.
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