Perhaps if the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had known what was in store for them, they would have avoided some of the subjects they campaigned upon.
The party, when in opposition, made many promises knowing of course that some were not feasible.
Now that the party is in power and their compatriots who were targets of the campaigns are looking forward to the actualisation of the promises and these not forthcoming, they have realised that they were fed with lies.
The LGBTQI+ was a favourite subject of the NDC when the party was frantically seeking power. The erroneous impression the party created about their then ruling counterpart was that they were uninterested in signing the LGBTQI+ bill into law. That, of course, presupposes that the party loved gayism and was therefore uninterested in passing the bill.
The NDC assured Ghanaians they would not tarry in having the President signing the LGBTQI+ bill into law when he assumes power.
Six months into being at the throttles of government, there is no posturing from the President to suggest that the bill is going to be signed anytime soon.
A few days ago, a rare opportunity offered itself to the NDC government and for that matter the President to prove beyond reasonable doubts that it abhors homosexuality in the country and would do all it can to stop it from gaining foothold here.
At the recent conference of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the subject cropped up, the membership of which Ghana is a part were required to vote to uphold so-called sexual orientation ideals. Kids are by the UN Human Rights ideals to be left alone to decide upon which sexual orientation they would prefer when they grow.
When the subject was put up for voting, Ghana was one of the three others which abstained. Abstinence in such voting presupposes acquiescence, especially by a government or President whose vacillation on the subject is now clearly appreciated by Ghanaians.
The President had previously told his countrymen that he would rather have the subject rendered into classroom lessons on proper human sexual values rather than through a legislation. That came when he assumed power — change of stance.
We have all as Ghanaians witnessed the true position of the NDC on the subject of LGBTQI+, a case study in hypocrisy at the seat of government.
The government’s abstinence on the subject, coming on the heels of the recent visit of a gay couple from South Africa to the Independence Square, speaks volumes about a subtle invitation to the gay global community to pitch camp in Ghana, a safe haven for them to practice their sexual orientation.
Time, it is said, is pregnant and when it delivers the sex of the baby will be known.
Months have elapsed since the NDC hopped from one part of the country to the other inciting people against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on the gay subject. Pregnant time has finally been delivered of its baby as in the UN vote where the abstinence of the country has presented us with government’s unambiguous position on LGBTQI+.