Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram, Samuel Nartey George, affectionately called ‘Dzata’, has been asked to go to the forest and live by his name, if indeed he is a lion.
According to the LGBTQI+ community, the lawmaker acts and speaks as though, they are not human and must be treated like animals.
Sam George is widely known as “Dzata” in Ga, which means a brave lion who fears nothing. But Director of LGBTQ+ Rights Ghana and a humanist, Alex Kofi Donkor in an interview, questioned the authority of Sam George to speak against them.
“I hear Sam George speak against us all the time. If he had a son or daughter who wanted to express his sexuality differently, would he be doing what he is doing?
“If he feels he is a lion, he cannot be a lion on us. He has been called Dzata Dzata Dzata and he wants to act his name, not on us then he should go to the forest and do that.”
Alex Kofi Donkor
His attacks on the lawmaker are because he is sponsoring a private member bill on LGBQTI+ bill in parliament and has been vociferous about the need to criminalize it.
The debate on LGBQTI+ rekindled after US Vice President, Kamala Harris made a controversial comment about the legalization of LGBQTI+ in the country during her visit. Meanwhile,she has since been greeted with sharp condemnation by Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin who wants the US to stay away from meddling in the affairs of Ghana.
Ghanaian LGBTQI Advocate Asked Not To Treated Like Animals
Director of LGBTQ+ Rights Ghana and a humanist, Alex Kofi Donkor, intimated that persons who express different sexuality either than what is familiar with Ghanaians or other Africans, must not be stigmatized.
He suggests respect shown to others who are not from the LGBTQI community, must be extended to them too.
Mr. Donkor made it clear; “discussions on LGBTQI often portray the community as less human or in some cases as animals.”
“It’s funny people make comparisons, that animals are not gays as they claim they don’t see male animals having sex, how can someone do that comparison? Are they in the animal world? How many animals have they studied to come to such baseless conclusions? People should allow people to be.
“We are not animals and it is wrong to compare us to animals. We have rights just like any human being and we must be treated right.”
Alex Kofi Donkor
He averred when people use animals as examples of not mating as same-sex to justify why people must not be gay, “it’s weird”.
He questioned the force at which some Ghanaians are opposing the LGBTQI community and its activities.
Founder and director of LGBTQ+ Rights Ghana, a movement of mostly young people who are championing a safe, inclusive and free society for LGBTQI+ persons, Alex Kofi Donkor, took a swipe at supposed men of God or religious leaders who are supposed to be welcoming rather than shunning them.
“Pastors and Imams in Ghana hate us most and I don’t like talking to them or having any debate with them. They don’t understand what they preach; they go about saying all kinds of filthy things about us.
“Usually, one would have thought they would be reasonable, knowing their background as men of God but they are not. It is always stressful listening to them, they easily judge you.”
Alex Kofi Donkor
Mr. Donkor noted that the notion that there are fewer members of the LGBTQI community in Ghana, is laughable.
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