A handful of MPs and lawmakers in Ghana have formed a ‘Believers against LGBTQ+’ alliance with plans to propose a bill which will allow for harsher treatment of queer people, despite same-sex relations already being punishable by imprisonment.
According to the African Equality Centre, the group announced its plans at a rally on March 21, where lawmaker Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah said being LGBTQ+ goes against Ghanaian culture.
Bedzrah said the bill is being discussed shortly, and confirmed that Alban Bagbin, a parliamentary speaker, already backs it, and said he “will not tolerate any law or permit anything that is against our culture”.