Ghana’s Chief Psychiatrist, Dr. Akwesi Osei, has described gays as “freaks of nature” and thus their sexual orientation must not be accepted as “normal”.

Speaking to XYZ Breakfast Show on Thursday June 6, 2013, Dr. Osei described gays as “a mistake of nature”.

He described as “wrong” any attempt by society to accept such “accidents of nature” as normal rather than “mistakes of nature” which should be corrected.

Dr. Akwesi Osei’s comments follow the likening of homosexuality to immutable characteristics like race and gender by a Ghanaian Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, Dr. Edmond Kissi.

Dr. Kissi argued that sexual orientation is no more considered a lifestyle choice, adding that homosexuals are today seen as legitimate groups whose inalienable human rights are to be accorded.

Drawing an analogy between sexual orientation and certain immutable circumstances of human existence, Dr. Kissi said: “I did not choose my physical appearance-short, black-I will live in this body till thy kingdom come.

“It’s an immutable characteristic. So that if you decide that all short people who are dark and who are Kwahu should be sent to a concentration camp and then killed, I’m going to be very upset because that constitutes genocide”.

“...If you say that all people with specific sexual orientation are to be discriminated against, not given equal access to the law, therefore, equality before the law and access to economic resources in Ghana should be based on sexual orientation, that is a crime under international law and I think we should be loud about that,” Dr. Kissi asserted.