Pressure group, OccupyGhana, has called on MP for Daboya Makarigu in the Northern Region, Nelson Abudu Baani, to apologise for calling for women deemed guilty of adultery to be stoned or hanged.

The group says after Mr Baani's apology and retraction he must proceed to ”resign from Ghana's august House of Parliament."

OccupyGhana has also called calls on the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, to condemn the MP's call.

During a discussion on Property Rights of Spouses Bill, the MP proffered hanging or stoning to death as the best punishment for women who engage in adulterous acts.

He said: "Day in day out in Afghanistan, if you go behind your husband they hang you", suggesting that stoning adulterous women should be included in the interstate succession bill before Parliament.

"OccupyGhana finds it incongruous that while President John Mahama, as leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the country, continues to talk about gender rights and equality, his MP calls for women (and he says this could include his own wife) to be hanged or stoned to death. The President and the NDC must send a strong signal that this kind of thinking and talking cannot and will not be tolerated under the President's watch", the group said in a statement.