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Thursday, July 21, 2011
He has tasked the Bureau of National Investigations with rounding up the estimated 8,000 homosexuals and lesbians in the district, and urged people to inform on anyone whom they think may be homosexual.
"All efforts are being made to get rid of these people in the society" he said.
Ghana is, yet again, another nation which we in the UK support with huge handouts out taxpayer money in the form of foreign aid.
"We will spend an average of £94 million per year in Ghana until 2015." the Department for International Development informs us. We meaning us, the British taxpayer, of course.
Among other things, we part funded a census in 2010 to "count Ghana's estimated 24 million citizens and provide vital information on the population's social, demographic, economic and housing characteristics". Perhaps that's where the 8,000 homosexual/lesbians figure came from?
Quite aside from its treatment of homosexuals, Ghana is associated with a large number of human rights violations, with the Amnesty International report of May this year painting a bleak picture of a land of declining freedom of expression where forced evictions and police abuses were commonplace.
Many in Britain, especially those among gay communities, might like to ponder upon whether propping up this oppressive regime is a good use of taxpayer money.
Our foreign aid cash certainly doesn't seem to be making Ghana into a thriving hub of equality and harmony where rights are respected.
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