ACCRA (BNO NEWS) — A Ghanaian church official on Friday warned local youth about homosexuality and said it is largely ’caused’ by poverty and unemployment, local media reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Reverend Dr. Bugri Nagbo, the Northern Regional Chairman of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, was addressing youth groups, political parties and chiefs in Tamale, the capital of the Northern Region, during a peace-building seminar organized by the church.<\/p>\n
“He said the actors (homosexuals) give their victims fat envelopes of money and assorted gifts to entice them into the act and advised the youth to beware,” the state-run Ghana News Agency said in a news report. Nagbo claimed same-sex relations are usually between an older, richer person and a poor young person.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in the fishing town of Winneba in southern Ghana, psychologist Alhasan Baba Mamudu warned youth to get rid of homosexuality because ‘it could destroy their lives’ in the future. He also called on parents, Christian and Muslim leaders and the government to intensify their campaign against homosexuality.<\/p>\n
The law in Ghana makes consenting homosexual acts a misdemeanor, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgenders (LGBT) face widespread discrimination as well as police harassment and extortion attempts. Gay men in prison are often subjected to sexual and other physical abuse.<\/p>\n
In late July, Western Region Minister Paul Evans Aidoo ordered the arrest of all homosexuals in the region and tasked security agencies to ‘smoke out’ all citizens suspected to be engaging in homosexual acts. “All efforts are being made to get rid of these people in the society,” he was cited as saying by local radio station Joy FM.<\/p>\n
In June 2010, more than 1,000 people protested in the city of Takoradi against reports of gay and lesbian activities in their city. There are no registered LGBT organizations in the African country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ACCRA (BNO NEWS) — A Ghanaian church official on Friday warned local youth about homosexuality and said it is largely ’caused’ by poverty and unemployment, local media reported on Saturday. Reverend Dr. Bugri Nagbo, the Northern Regional Chairman of the…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n