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Popular TV host, Paul Adom Otchere has voiced concerns over potential legal consequences for interviewing transgender individuals, specifically mentioning Nigerian personality, Bobrisky following the passing of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 known as the Anti – LGBTQ+ bill Ghana’s Parliament.
Speaking during an editorial segment on his ‘Good Evening Ghana’ show, Otchere brought attention to a significant question.
“So if I bring Bob Risky here and I interview him, I’d go to jail for two years? Because he’s transgender, I’m not supposed to, under the bill that has been passed, because interviewing transgender people that is seen by the bill as promoting the LGBTQ+.”
Otchere disclosed his intention to speak with transgender person Bob Risky, a resident of Nigeria, and the possible legal consequences that interviewing him would have under the new law.
He described a frightening scenario in which he could be removed by handcuffs and law authorities for endorsing LGBTQ+ content on his show.
“Viewers can you imagine? one day, you are waiting for Good Evening Ghana and I’d be sitting here doing this touch screen and policemen walk into the studio and they say stop the program and they handcuff and take me away because I interviewed Bob risky. Why ?Because of the Human sexual rights and Family Values Act, of 2021. Should there be an amendment of this part, I don’t know” he stated.
The recently enacted law contains clauses that make providing LGBTQ+ advocacy and support services illegal and subject to fines and jail time.
Additionally, it aims to outlaw same-sex unions as well as any open expressions of affection between members of the same sex.
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