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Renowned lawyer and sports analysts, Moses Foh Amoaning has described the United Nations General Secretary Ban Kin Moon as a "daft person who lacks ideas on international topical issues".Ban Ki-Moon is reported to have made a statement at the just-ended AU Heads of States Summit in Addis Ababa, calling on African nations to respect the rights of gays.In a sharp rebuttal, Mr. Foh Amoaning described Ban Ki Moon as a shallow-minded person who believes his personal views should be taken as international policy.In an interview on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem on Monday, Moses Foh Amoaning stated that Mr Ban Ki Moon’s comment is a personal view which should not be taken as a general stand of the UN Assembly.Mr. Foh Amoaning argued that, as it stands now, the UN conventions do not accept homosexuality or sexual orientation as part of universal human rights under United Nations law.He added that there are basic principles which govern the passage of law, which includes drafting of the bill by a working group, adoption by member countries, ratification by parliament by signing to accept the Act, before it can be accepted as law.He noted that “the UN Secretary General is aware that all these principles have not been met, yet (he) went ahead to make (a) conclusive statement that gay rights should be respected on the African continent”.‘As far as I am concerned, the United Nations’ Secretary General is not making initiatives to progress the fundamental human rights of people, but has been turned into a parrot for Western powers’, Moses Foh Amoaning stressed.The former head of the Ghana Boxing Authority mentioned that ‘the UN Covention on Economic, Cultural and Social Rights, enjoins all member countries to respect Cultural Rights of each member’, and urged African leaders to protect their sovereignty and resist any attempt by the West to impose an alien culture in the continent.Moses Foh Amoaning maintained that “any man who will fall in love with his fellow man has mental health problems”.He said United Kingdom and United States of America who are championing the rights of gays are not super powers anymore, because these nations are even borrowing from China and wondered why African should kowtow to their whims and caprices on gay issues.Meanwhile, an aspiring independent Presidential candidate for the 2012 elections, Jacob Osei Yeboah argued that if the West wants to impose its culture on the African continent, then polygamy, which is widely practiced in Africa, should also be practiced in the western world.According to Osei Yeboah, just as polygamy is abhorred by the western world, so do Africans abhor the practice of homosexuality.
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