The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has reaffirmed his strong opposition to LGBTQ+ activities, emphasising that such practices will neither be accepted nor legalised in Ghana.

According to a citinewsroom.com report on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, Speaker Bagbin suggested that there are global efforts to impose LGBTQ+ values on Africans, but he insists that such attempts will not succeed.

Speaking during an official visit to Uganda, Bagbin stressed that Ghana’s cultural and moral foundations do not support LGBTQ+ orientations.

He described efforts to introduce or normalise such practices as a foreign imposition that must be resisted.

“You can be sure that the world they want to create and impose on us will not exist while we are alive. LGBT is not African, it is not natural, and God did not create it. This is an imposition that we must all resist," he stated.

His remarks fall on the back of the ongoing debate on the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ activities.

In Ghana’s case, the anti-LGBTQ+ bill was passed during the 8th Parliament but failed to receive presidential assent before the term ended.

Although former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo did not sign the bill into law, he also did not refer it to the Supreme Court.

Instead, private individuals filed legal challenges at the Supreme Court, questioning both the bill’s constitutionality and aspects of the parliamentary process.

By the close of the 8th Parliament, the Court had not ruled on these cases, leading to the bill’s lapse.

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