Sam Pee Yalley, former deputy minister
under Ghana's Jerry Rawlings administration, has called for gay
people to be charged with genocide.
In an interview broadcast Wednesday on
Citi
FM's Eyewitness News, Yalley denied Attorney General
Martin Amidu's recent claim that sex between consenting adults of the
same gender in the privacy of their own home is not illegal in the
African nation.
“There is another section of the
criminal code which people are not taking a look at, it is about
genocide,” said Yalley, a public interest lawyer.
“Genocide results in the
extermination of the human race and if you expand the meaning of
homosexuality to mean that a man cannot have a child with another
man, then it means that [the] practice would lead to the
extermination of mankind and therefore for me if I am to charge
anybody apart from having unnatural carnal knowledge, I would also
charge him with genocide and see how he can get out of that
situation.”
“If you are a man and you are having
carnal knowledge with a man, how are you going to have a child?”
But with the world's population set to
reach an estimated 7 billion people later this year, it seems
illogical to believe that the human race is on the verge of
extermination.