Ensakai, says though today offers Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia a golden opportunity to state his stance on LGBTQ+, his loud silence after all these while and then coming out to state his stance only after Mahama publicly repudiated LGBTQ+ last week will only amount to trying to score cheap political points.
In a statement signed yesterday by its Convener, Adel Umar Ibrahim, Ensakai says no true Muslim will tolerate LGBTQ+ sexual orientation for even a second. It is therefore embarrassing to the Muslim community that Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has kept quiet on the issue since it began raging in Ghana over ten years ago.
The group is a Muslim youth organization interested in the promotion of good morals in Zongo communities in Ghana
“As a Muslim, we expected you, Mr. Vice-President, to without let or hindrance swiftly condemn LGBTQ+ when your boss, President Akufo-Addo, told Al Jazeera IN 2018 that with a little push by the LGBTQ+ Community, homosexuality will become legal in Ghana” the statement said.
According to the Muslim group, it was disturbing to note that the Vice-President further kept quiet when attempts were made to introduce Ghanaian school children to homosexuality through the curriculum of basic schools in the country.
By keeping a loud silence then, our Vice-President, a Muslim, was giving his support for children to be taught that it is okay for a man to marry a man and a woman to marry a woman.
“On the other hand, John Mahama has made Christians, and indeed Muslims proud by declaring once again just last week that he is against LGBTQ+ because his faith is against t and the culture of the people he is seeking to lead is against it. That Bawumia is coming on the heels of this to state his stance after this long period of silence can only be an attempt to score cheap political points seeing that Mahama is being applauded by Muslims, Christians, traditionalist and adherents of other religions for his bold stance against LGBTQ+. With that, should Bawumia take a stance against LGBTQ+ today, it can only an unwilling act, a dishonest one, forced out of him for the sake of political expediency. However, we are looking forward to hear his stance on this perverse sexual orientation, especially, on why he has kept silence all these while” Ensakai said.
The group applauded Former President Mahama for coming out boldly against LGBTQ+.
“This is the mark of a true leader. A true leader must be unwavering. He must be bold and principled. Above all,he must put the interest of the people he is seeking to lead above his personal gains”
Source : Daily Post
