Africans must rise and shut 'lecturer' Cameron up - Kwame Akuffo

Kwame Akuffo

The threats by British Prime Minister to 'starve' African countries which abhor and maltreat homosexuals have ruffled many nerves and sent harsh tongues wagging.

David Cameron in an interview with journalists said the rights of gays and lesbians must be protected and warned that the UK will withhold aid to those countries which will fail to respect those rights.

Religious groups in Ghana felt offended, but a lawyer Kwame Akuffo is even more incensed by Cameron's remarks.

Head of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana Prof Emmanuel Martey in an interview with Joy News said Cameron lacked the global understanding of people's cultural sensibilities and warned no country, including the UK has the right to tell another country how to frame its laws.

He stressed the call for African countries to recognize gay practice is part of a grand strategy by forces of darkness, insisting the Presbyterian Church of Ghana is a Bible-believing church and will live by the dictates of the Bible.

Prof Martey said the Presby Church of Ghana at a just ended General Assembly in Abetifi has cut any form of relationship with groups or churches which have openly ordained gay ministers.

A private legal practitioner in Accra, Kwame Akuffo is even more vehement in his reprimand of Cameron's remarks.

He told Joy News' Dzifa Bampoh that African's must rise and shut David Cameron up on a sensitive gay issue which attacks the very moral foundation of Africans.

He said the west has no right to export any sexual orientation and seek to impose it on Africans amidst threats of withholding aids.

“I get the impression that David Cameron has in the last couple of weeks has the penchant of going around lecturing people. Over the Eurozone crisis and European debt, he was in Brussels last week trying to lecture the Germans - he got shouted down by the French.

“I think that we as Africans must stand up and shut him down on this matter.

“First and foremost, given the standing of our cultural values and norms it is completely deficit. You do not export sexual orientation and seek to withhold aid if people do not comply with your orientation,” he argued.

He described Cameron's position as merely hypocritical, especially when British government has deepened its trade relationship with Saudi Arabia, a country which only last week, reportedly, had some of its citizens' decapitated and beheaded for one offence committed or another.

“Each decent loving individual knows that these crimes are reprehensible but the British have dealt with them. On what basis therefore do they think they can come to Africa because they think we are weak and decide to export sexual orientation?”

Story by Ghana/Myjoyonline.com