A group known as the Movement for the Kingdom Image (MFKI), has called on the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to enact laws that will make the defence of homosexuals a treasonable offence in Ghana.
According to the group: "We want to entreat the Akufo-Addo government to immediately enact a legislation that would make a mere defence of homosexuality a treasonable offence to control the unnecessary defence of the sacrilegious and abominable act of lesbianism and [gayness] by some unscrupulous individuals and groups in the country."
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The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye on Monday, February 20, 2017, called for the amendment of the country’s laws to completely ban homosexuality and make it illegal.
He said: "It is unfortunate that people have become so liberal that they will want to liberalise Christianity…even priests are approving of homosexuality and allowing a man and a man [to] marry, a woman and a woman [to] marry and these are manifest abominations."
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"I trust that with your kind of insistence, the Parliament of Ghana will find its way clear in strengthening the laws to ban homosexuality as they exist. As for this, may God forbid that it becomes a Ghanaian culture," he added.
The group in a statement signed by the president, Osempakani Kaakyire Kifi said: "We believe Ghana is not ready now or ever to accept this inhuman and ungodly behaviour, but the government must show its commitment not just by word of mouth but rather by a law that will restrict people from trying to defend the act.
"We observed with the greatest disappointment and panic over the past week how the Amnesty International confidently and without any shame came out to defend and called for the legalisation of homosexuality in Ghana in the name of human rights observation."
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The statement added: "His Excellency the president of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has all the powers either to accept or decline the legalisation of the act, therefore, we are appealing to the president to see the need to enact harsh laws to deal recklessly with those outcasts who want legalisation of homosexuality in Ghana.
"We also urge parliament of Ghana to be committed to this issue and push for a strict legislation as Ghanaians, not NDC or NPP, because when it happens it will affect us and our generations yet unborn without asking which political parties they belong to. God must reign in this country, not insanity."