Parliament is set to pass the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 to curb activities of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Transexual, Ally, Pansexual+ in the country.
The bill is proposing that a person who through media, technological account, or any other means produces, procures, markets, broadcasts, disseminates, publishes or distributor uses an electronic device, the internet service, a film, or any other device capable of electronic storage or transmission to produce, procure, market, broadcast, disseminate, publish or distribute material or information directed at a child whether directly or indirectly with intent to evoke the interest of the child in an activity prohibited under the Act or teach the child to explore any gender or sex other than the binary category of male or female commits an offence, rainbowradioonline reported.
Culpable individuals will be jailed not exceeding ten years.
Persons who fund activities of the LGBTQ groups in the country will also be found foul of the law.
Also, the owner of the media, technological platform, or technological account on which the material or information is circulated is deemed to have committed an offence unless it is proven that the owner did not consent to, or connive at the commission of the offence and exercised the degree of reasonable diligence as ought in the circumstances to have been exercised to prevent the commission of the offence.
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