{"id":443169,"date":"2017-12-03T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/03\/dont-politicise-akufo-addos-comment-on-homosexuality-kweku-baako\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T01:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T01:00:38","slug":"dont-politicise-akufo-addos-comment-on-homosexuality-kweku-baako","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/03\/dont-politicise-akufo-addos-comment-on-homosexuality-kweku-baako\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t politicise Akufo-Addo’s comment on homosexuality – Kweku Baako"},"content":{"rendered":"

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General News of Sunday, 3 December 2017<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n

2017-12-03<\/p>\n

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\"Kwakuplay video<\/span>Abdul Malik Kweku Baako<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Veteran Journalist Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has defended the president\u2019s homosexuality stance as not on Ghana\u2019s agenda describing it as \u201cfair and honest\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Aljazeera\u2019s \u2018Talk to Al Jazeera\u2019 programme hosted by Jane Dutton Al-Jazeera during the president\u2019s recent visit to Qatar, he said that the issue of homosexuality is a \u201csocio-cultural issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that extent, the president said that there is no sufficient reason to warrant the legalization of homosexuality.<\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo\u2019s comment triggered controversy among Ghanaians with the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) accusing the president of setting an agenda for advocates of homosexuals to agitate in order to have Ghana\u2019s law amended to recognize acts of homosexuals.<\/p>\n

However, Kweku Baako has objected the claims made by the opposition saying that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo statement should not be used as a fence for needless political debates and agendas because \u201cit is no different from what the previous presidents did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking on Peace FM\u2019s morning show programme \u2018Kokrokoo\u2019, he cited an occasion where during a two-day visit by the Head of State, who was then the 2012 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), he made it clear to then British Prime Minister Mr David Cameron that the issue of linking the promotion of gay rights to British development assistance does not go down well with Ghanaians who saw it as an affront to their social values.<\/p>\n

Kweku Baako said Akufo-Addo\u2019s statement then and now do not make any huge difference if \u201cthe analysis would be done in an intellectual manner rather than seek political capital or gender propaganda mischief.\u201d<\/p>\n