The Second Deputy Speaker of Ghana's Parliament, Professor Mike Ocquaye, has described a threat made by British Prime Minister, David Cameron, to cut aid to anti-gay nations as “satanic”.

According to Prof. Ocquaye, Ghana can survive without depending on aid from Britain and charged the government not to kowtow to UK’s threats.

Prof. Ocquaye was speaking on one of the country's flagship Breakfast Shows on Citi Fm on Monday.Prof. Ocquaye, obviously furious at the stance of the British Prime Minister words.

Prof. Ocquaye urged all the opposition parties in Ghana to join the government to fight against the UK’s threat.

“Homosexual is not normal and if you are born with an abnormality, society must help you to cure your abnormality else everyone would invoke his deficiencies and society would be destroyed. This is satanic,” Prof. Ocquaye said.

Prof. Ocquaye added that Britain must rather direct its attention and help Ghana solve important social issues like street hawking, child labour and should not force the west African country and other African nations to legalise homosexuality.

“If they want to worry about something I want to prescribe something, they should worry about 'Kwashiokor' [symptoms of malnutrition in children]; human rights are affected, they should worry about street children; they should worry about sickle cell disease, it is killing our people and that is important for us.

"Why don’t they bring money in several millions to solve that? ” he quipped.

Meanwhile, a political analyst at the University of Ghana, Dr. Michael Kpessah Whyte, said this is a fine opportunity for Ghana and other African countries to wean themselves off foreign aid, especially from the UK.

He added that there are many avenues available for Ghana to explore to grow its economy and be independent of aid.

This follow Mr. Cameron's threat to withhold UK aid from countries including Ghana that do not reform legislation banning homosexuality, adding that nations receiving UK aid should "adhere to proper human rights."

Mr. Cameron in an interview with the BBC stated that "British aid should have more strings attached."

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