MP in trouble over stoning adulterous women comment

The Ghanaian Legislator advocating stoning to death, and hanging of adulterous women, must pitch camp in Afghanistan and run for elections there, Kinna Likimani, a human rights activist and daughter of famous Ghanaian and African Author Ama Ata Aidoo has said.

“If he wants the punishment of Taliban-run Afghanistan to be a model for punishment in Ghana, he should please do us a favour and go and stand as an MP in Afghanistan, but not in this country, where we are trying so hard to develop,” Likimani fumed in an interview Friday.

“…If he wants to do stoning, a lot of countries do stoning, he should go there,” she thundered.

The Daboya/Mankarigu MP made the proposal in Parliament Thursday during discussions on the Interstate Succession bill, which is expected to correct certain anomalies and deficiencies, which do not inure to the benefit of female spouses in marriages where a partner dies interstate.

Describing the proposal as “backward and regressive,” Likimani said: “Ghana has travelled a long way to get to where we are, we have a longer road ahead of us and we will not be doing Taliban-style punishment in this country.”

“I want to say that it is absolute blasphemy for an MP to stand in the Parliament of 2014 Republic of Ghana and advocate a cruel and unusual punishment like stoning,” the Mbaasem Foundation Programme’s Officer told Citi FM in an interview.

Despite the criticism, the unrepentant MP has consistently been justifying his statement and calling the bluff of his critics.