The National House of Chiefs has expressed their displeasure in regard to the activities of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the country.

According to them, such activities are unacceptable and do not correspond with the norms and values of the Ghanaian culture.

President of the National House of Chiefs, Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi who spoke on behalf of the chiefs called on members of parliament to fiercely resist any attempt to stop them from passing the LGBTQ+ bill.

Addressing the chiefs during their Annual General Meeting, Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi said Ghanaian customs and traditions frown on LGBTQ+ activities and deem it as an abomination.

“Nananom, LGBTQ+ is evil, we the Chiefs of Ghana have been inundated by calls from our people to make an open declaration concerning the threat by LGBTQ. We the chiefs, as the custodians of culture, the customs and traditions of our people, wish to state categorically that our traditions and customs recognise that our creator, God or Allah and called variously by different religions, created man and woman to occupy the earth and procreate.

“There is, therefore, only male and female gender and no other agenda. The Christians Holy Book, the Bible, Muslims, Quran, and our traditions and customs affirm these facts. It is, therefore, an abomination and against all our cultural values as Ghanaians to allow others to import into our country anything contrary to the above values that we have cherished over the centuries,” he said.

The Chiefs said they will not allow any group to propagate LGBTQ+ in any other form in Ghana.

Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi called on the police and other relevant institutions not to allow the practice of LGBTQ in the country.

“We are not calling only on the police, we are calling on ourselves too,” Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi said.

The Promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and the Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 is currently before Parliament.

The controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill is a private member’s bill that was presented to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin. It seeks to among other things criminalize the promotion, advocacy, funding, and acts of homosexuality in the country.

However, the bill has been hit with a number of legal actions seeking to stop its passage.