Ghana's Supreme Court will deliver a verdict on July 17 on the anti-LGBTQ bill passed this year to criminalize homosexuality. Two suits filed at the top court are asking for the bill to be declared unconstitutional.Like many other LGBTQ+ Ghanaians, he fears that going public after Ghana's lawmakers passed a bill in February to restrict gay, lesbian and trans voices could have serious consequences for him.
"This bill came at a timewhen we were going through a lot of challenges. Getting medical services as LGBTQ+ persons was extremely difficult because one is discriminated against when you are trying to access any health facility," he said, expressing his disappointment that the bill has made it this far through all legal hurdles.
A lawyer representing one of petitioners in the case, Ernest Arkoh, told the court on Wednesday that irreparable harm would be caused to members of the Ghanaian LGBTQ+ community.. Some people even suffered violence as a result of this. The dignity of the individual would be affected, should the application be rejected," he said in court.
Mohammed agrees that Ghanaians who support the bill do not understand the full implications even for non-members of the LGBTQ+ community:"I am urging Ghanaians to go and read the bill and see what this bill is. Because it is not a bill that is supposed to promote Ghanaian family values. This is a bill of real hatred and vengeance. That's what the bill actually is," he told DW.
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