Ghana's President, John Evan Atta Mills has stated categorically that Ghana will not in any way institute a law legalizing gay and lesbian relationships in Ghana. this he also added that his country will not abide to British Prime Minister David Cameron's words to legalize homosexuality in Ghana.

The President was speaking to a section of journalist in Accra to respond to Prime Minister Cameron’s threat to cut UK aid to African countries which abuse the rights of gay citizens, said Ghana will not capitulate to the United Kingdom or any country for that matter.

“I as president of this nation I will never initiate or support any attempt to legalise homosexuality in Ghana.

“As government we will abide by the principles as contained in our Constitution, which is supreme.”


President Mills however maintained that Britain cannot tell Ghana what to do on her cultural and moral values as Ghana and Britain has different cultural values.

President Mills however said, Cameron had a right to make policies and reference to societal norms to his society but did not have the right to direct other sovereign nations on what to do especially when their norms were different.

He said Ghana will continue to operate within its constitution regardless of any threats from any country.

The President stressed that Ghana will not accept aid with conditions which have the tendency to destroy the social fabric of the society.

"Let me also say that whiles we acknowledge all the financial assistance and all the aid which has been given to us by our development partners, we will not accept any aid with strings attached if that aid will not inure to our interest or the implementation or the utilisation of that aid with strings attached would rather worsen our plight as a nation or destroy the very society that we want to use the money to improve"

British Prime Minister David Cameron following the Commonwealth heads of state meeting in Perth, Australia threatened a cut in the flow of development assistance if African countries did not relax or reform their laws to favour homosexuality.

He was said to have mentioned particularly Ghana and Uganda for maintaining strict laws against homosexuality.

Meanwhile on Thursday,President Mills received a high Parliamentary commendation for decisive response to gay rights conditionality in Ghana.

Meaning Parliament of Ghana has also added its voice to that of the President by overwhelmingly condemning the practice of homosexuality in the country.

The MP's made a call for an amendment of the Criminal Code to impose stiffer sanctions on persons found guilty of the practice.

Meanwhile, most Ghanaians are in support of the President's reaction to UK Prime Minister's threat to withhold aid to countries that do not legalise homosexuality.

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