NPP Plots To Tag Veep As Homosexual

Impeccable reports reaching The Herald, have it that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has hatched a devilish and nauseating plot to smear the Vice-President designate, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur alias “Peekay”, with a vicious claim that he is a homosexual or a man with sex preference for men.

For sometime now, this paper has been monitoring the social media platform, “facebook” walls of some NPP elements, and one upon the nomination of the Vice-President asked whether Ghana wants a “womanizer and gay” for President and Vice-President. This man has been seen many times in the company of Nana Akufo-Addo, flagbearer of the NPP.

The question was later followed by the posting on the wall (Facebook) of this gentleman of a January 9, 2012 publication by the pro-NPP Daily Guide newspaper which quoted a certain Joseph Kwabena Owusu-Sekyere, based in Tema, as having said that he has had a “homosexual relationship with a former deputy minister of state who now heads a very reputable bank that has its headquarters on the High Street in Accra”.

Three of the NPP elements, monitored by The Herald, raising the homosexuality issue are a certain Agnes Afiyo, Nana Hesse Ogyiri and Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe Jr, who has been seen several times on NPP campaign platforms as well as in the companies of Nana Addo, ex-President John Kufuor and Akufo-Addo’s running mate, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia.

Homosexuality is totally despised by both Christians and Muslims in Ghana, as well as traditionalists.

The homosexual story, posted on the facebook, was written by Halifax Ansah-Addo, a senior reporter at the “Daily Guide” and beneath it is a photograph of Mr. Amissah-Arthur, suggesting he was the one, the newspaper owned by ex-First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Freddie Blay, who is a member of the Nana Addo’s Campaign Team, was referring to as the anonymous ex-deputy minister and the banker.

It was titled: “Minister is my Gay Lover”.

Signals picked up by The Herald, from the Nima Junction office, reveals that the story was about Mr. Amissah-Arthur and sooner than later the paper will be hitting town with it.

“The Daily Guide” wrote that “Joseph Kwabena Owusu-Sekyere, believed to be in his late fifties, personally and confidently walked into the offices of DAILY GUIDE after several contacts with our Tema correspondent, and narrated how he and the said banker had kissed, caressed, romanced, licked and sucked each other’s sex organs in a long-standing homosexual relationship.

“Mr. Owusu-Sekyere revealed further that he and the said top banker (name withheld for now) fell in love with each other when they were students at a top boy’s senior secondary school in Cape Coast in the Central Region”.

“After secondary school, I traveled to the United States of America and he went to the university, but when I returned, he had been made a deputy minister and we continued our sexual relationship although he was married. I would go to his office during lunch time and we would drive to his house because the wife would not be home by then.

We would kiss, fondle each other, make love and he would give me money. There was this time his house boy nearly caught us,” Mr. Owusu-Sekyere narrated.

Meanwhile, checks carried out by The Herald, in Parliament, reveals that some members of the Appointment Committee, which is vetting Mr. Amissah-Arthur on Monday, and has announced its readiness to receive petitions, queries and concerns from the public on President John Mahama’s nominee, has gotten wind of the homosexual claims against the outgoing Governor of the Bank of Ghana.

Parliament, on last Wednesday, agreed to publicly scrutinize the President’s nominee in the full glare of the public, but the decision is unclear whether the question about his sexual preference will come up at Monday’s vetting. Mr. Amisah-Arthur is said to be married to a very shy woman with whom he has two children, a boy and a girl.

Already, the Ranking Member of the Committee and Minority leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, has cautioned members of the public to back their petitions and queries with evidence.

He gave assurance that the Committee would try not to delve into personal issues when scrutinizing the in-coming vice president, saying: “The Appointments Committee is normally reluctant to delve into…personal matters.”

Meanwhile, according to the Majority Leader, Cletus Avoka, the Committee is obliged to hold part of its vetting process in-camera if a sensitive issue emerges, relating to Mr. Amissah-Arthur’s role as governor of the BOG.

The Herald’s attempt to get a response from Vice-President Nominee proved futile. His Tigo mobile lines were off. A junior brother of his was also called by The Herald but he did not pick his Artel mobile phone line either.

Below is the full story written by Daily Guide in its January 9, 2012 edition. ‘When the frog narrates events from the river-bank to the effect that the crocodile is dead, you have no reason to doubt it’.

A very respectable-looking man who is based in Tema has told DAILY GUIDE that he has had a homosexual relationship with a former deputy minister of state who now heads a very reputable bank that has its headquarters on the High Street in Accra.

Joseph Kwabena Owusu-Sekyere, believed to be in his late fifties, personally and confidently walked into the offices of DAILY GUIDE after several contacts with our Tema correspondent, and narrated how he and the said banker had kissed, caressed, romanced, licked and sucked each other’s sex organs in a long-standing homosexual relationship.

Mr. Owusu-Sekyere revealed further that he and the said top banker (name withheld for now) fell in love with each other when they were students at a top boy’s senior secondary school in Cape Coast in the Central Region.

“After secondary school, I traveled to the United States of America and he went to the university but when I returned, he had been made a deputy minister and we continued our sexual relationships although he was married.

“I would go to his office during lunch time and we would drive to his house because the wife would not be home by then. We would kiss, fondle each other, make love and he would give me money. There was this time his house boy nearly caught us,” Mr. Owusu-Sekyere narrated.

Interestingly, Owusu-Sekyere said he did not mind at all if his photographs were taken and splashed on the front page of the paper because according to him, there was too much hypocrisy being displayed over issues concerning homosexuality.

“Look, everyone knows this and they used to call us ‘Creptua’. You ask him about it or just mention my name and he cannot deny. I can go with you when you are ready to ask his side of the story….He was very passionate about it and was deeply involved so I do not understand all the hypocrisy going on about gays and the attempt to portray the whole thing as if it just started or as if the big names in society are not involved…I can mention a lot of names of people in government and give you the evidence if you really want. I can mention several old boys who were in school with us and they can all confirm this,” he noted.

Owusu-Sekyere explained that he entered secondary school in 1966 and left in 1973 while the top banker entered the same school in 1964 and left in 1971.

He said their sexual relationship lasted from 1969 to 1971 when the ex-minster, then his senior, left secondary school.

He said they however continued later on in their adult life, sometimes on the blind side of his wife, either in his car or hiding in the garage of his residence.

When asked why he was revealing this now, and why he wanted the world to know, Owusu-Sekyere said he felt hurt because it was the banker, then his senior, who introduced him to homosexual activities and got him addicted.

“Now it is something I have done for a long time and I do not like the way he and other big persons in authority treat gays and shy away from the very practice they are involved in,” he explained.

Owusu-Sekyere revealed further that he has a son who is sojourned in London but he did not have a wife and continues to engage in homosexuality.

DAILY GUIDE’s attempt to talk to the said ex-minister on the issue proved futile. By Halifax Ansah-Addo