Leader of the Economic Fighters League (Fighters), Ernesto Yeboah, has questioned the growing national focus on the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, also known as the Anti-LGBTQ+ bill.

He argued that Ghana risks neglecting pressing issues such as unemployment, poverty, corruption, and economic hardship while they are fixated on the controversial bill.

In a Facebook post sighted by GhanaWeb on June 1, 2026, Yeboah suggested that the intense debate surrounding the anti-LGBTQI Bill may be distracting citizens from challenges affecting millions of Ghanaians.

“As I said the other day, I have never really paid much attention to LGBTQ+ issues. In fact, I must admit that I carry some of the prejudices common in our society. But the passage of the anti-LGBTQ+ Bill by Parliament has set off all my alarm bells,” he wrote.

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The activist said the controversy has instead pushed him to learn more about the subject.

“What concerns me is that I am beginning to realise how little I know about the subject. Some of you may cringe at certain things I say. If so, forgive me. I am learning,” he added.

Yeboah disclosed that he is open to reading books, studies, articles, and engaging members of the LGBTQI community to broaden his understanding of the issue; despite describing himself as still learning, he maintained that the rights and freedoms of all citizens must be protected.

“At the same time, there is one thing I am already certain about. I am still learning about LGBTQI issues and challenging my own prejudices, but no citizen’s fundamental freedoms should be under attack. For that reason, I stand with the LGBTQI+ community,” he stated.

According to him, the legislation may have unintentionally increased public interest in LGBTQ+ issues rather than reducing it.

“If this Bill intended to make me ignore LGBTQI issues, it has had the opposite effect. I now find myself paying more attention to the matter than ever before,” he noted.

Yeboah further questioned whether politicians were using the debate to divert attention from more urgent national concerns.

“I cannot shake the feeling that our politicians are fooling us,” he said.

He pointed to unemployment among trained nurses, teachers, agricultural graduates, and environmental health officers as issues that deserve greater national attention.

“Are our politicians genuinely solving a pressing national problem, or are they giving us a highly emotional issue to debate while the deeper crises affecting millions of Ghanaians remain unresolved?” he asked.

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