Ignore NDC’s cheap propaganda; Akufo-Addo hasn't legalised gay marriage - Arhin

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described as “baseless and vile fabrication” reports making rounds in the media purporting that the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has legalise same-ex marriages in Ghana.

The General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia is reported to have made the jaw-dropping allegation against the government during the NDC’s Unity Walk in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region where he claimed that president Nana Addo has said “men will marry men, and women will marry women" under his governance.

According to report, the secretary while addressing a large crowd of NDC supporters in Kumasi on Saturday, April 28, 2018 made reference to the 2016 electioneering year, arguing that the incumbent President while in opposition at the time promised the Ghanaian youth marriages when elected into office.

He is quoted to have said, "Now you know what is coming? I won't talk about it" and then seconds later declaring that "Nana Addo says men will marry men, and women will marry women."

However, the Presidency in a statement describing the commentary of Johnson Asiedu Nketia as “fabrication” said President Akufo-Addo has never made such proclamations on any platform.

The statement signed by the Director of Communications, Eugene Arhin iterated that the President remains focused on delivering on his mandate, and improving on the quality of lives of the Ghanaian people not legalising same-sex marriage in Ghana.

It added that the President is fervently indisposed to pursuing the matter neither by requesting for an apology or retraction from the NDC General Secretary but rather urged well-meaning Ghanaians and NPP faithful’s to ignore the lies, deceit and propaganda paraded by the opposition.

Read the statement below

Re: President Akufo-Addo Has Approved Gay Marriage



President Akufo-Addo has in recent times come under pressure to declare his stance on gay marriage after he claimed last year in an Aljazeera interview that homosexuality in Ghana was bound to happen.

He had said homosexuality has not sufficiently garnered strong coalition from the public on the need to legalise gay marriage thus it remains illegal.

"I don’t believe in Ghana so far, a sufficiently strong coalition has emerged which is having that impact on public opinion that would say ‘change it, let's have a new paradigm in Ghana.

I think that it is something that is bound to happen and when that happens...," he said.

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