{"id":443654,"date":"2017-12-04T23:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/04\/nana-addo-is-ever-ready-to-legalize-homosexuality-asiedu-nketia\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04T23:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T23:21:26","slug":"nana-addo-is-ever-ready-to-legalize-homosexuality-asiedu-nketia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/04\/nana-addo-is-ever-ready-to-legalize-homosexuality-asiedu-nketia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo is ever ready to legalize homosexuality \u2013 Asiedu Nketia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday,  4 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanacrusader.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-04<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/62062727.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asiedu Nketia Dlgs\" title=\"Asiedu Nketia Dlgs\" width=\"295\" height=\"208\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Mr. Nketia believes like late President Atta Mills, the president must be clear on his stance<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512429686_523_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u2019s answer to Ghana\u2019s position on homosexuality has opened the doors for gay rights activists to agitate for the decriminalization of the act.<\/p>\n<p>According to the outspoken NDC aficionado, the President\u2019s response is an indication that he would soon endorse the practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Nana Addo is ever ready to legalize homosexuality. Per his response, he has actually opened doors for gays to demonstrate for the decriminalization of the act. It\u2019s just unfortunate for a whole President to give such response\u201d he said on Accra based Okay fm.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo stated that even though legalizing homosexuality is not on his government\u2019s agenda, a strong call by members of the society through agitation can cause the law banning it be amended.<\/p>\n<p>Following the president\u2019s comment which has generated a lot of controversies, the general public and some state actors have heavily criticized him, saying that his stance will encourage homosexuals in Ghana to gain grounds to protest.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Nketia believes like the late president John Evans Atta Mills, the president must be clear on his stance because as far as he is concerned the country will not accept homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLate President Mills was quick to give his stance as well as other former Presidents so it will be appropriate for him (Nana Addo) to also come out clear on the issue\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that it is a general conception that the Ghanaian society abhors homosexuality, and therefore the President is expected to recognize that fact and act in accordance.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: 26 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Monday, 4 December 2017 Source: ghanacrusader.com 2017-12-04 Mr. Nketia believes like late President Atta Mills, the president must be clear on his stance General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has said that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u2019s answer to Ghana\u2019s position on homosexuality has opened the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":399262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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