The Deputy General Secretary of the governing NPP, Nana Obiri Boahene has advised supporters of the Anti-LGBTQ bill against using violence when addressing suspected LGBTQ persons.

According to him, it is not acceptable to abuse people just because they share a different point of view.

Speaking on Top Story on Friday, Mr Boahen said that “don’t resort to violence to explain the issue to them [LGBTQ persons]. No, that is not acceptable. Just have the patience and the tolerance to explain to them that look, this thing cannot work.”

His comment comes after some residents of Nkoranza assaulted a 21-year-old man for supposedly engaging in homosexual activity in the Bono East Region on Wednesday, October 6.

Youth of the town were seen in an amateur video, beating the man, whose name is given as Yaw Barima, in a room where he is alleged to have indulged in the act.

They stormed the premises and subsequently whisked him to the palace on Friday.

The agitated group insisted that the alleged act flies in the face of a directive by the Queen Mother of the traditional area, Nana Yaa Dudaa Kani I, which abhors activities of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transgender among others.

However, Mr Boahen told Kojo Manu, host of the show that “they should not do that [resort to violence].”

Meanwhile, top clergymen and Islamic clerics have presented memos to the Parliament’s Committee on Constitution and Legal Affairs on Wednesday, in support of the bill.

The Church of Pentecost has declared its readiness to vote out any political party that stands against the passage of the bill.

However, a series of memoranda, which oppose the legislation, have also been presented to the Committee.

The sponsors of the memoranda describe the bill as an endorsement of state-sponsored violence against minority groups and an infringement on their human rights.