A Law lecturer of the University of Ghana, Professor Raymond Akongburo Atuguba, has hinted that he has approached some Members of Parliament (MPs) to sponsor a Private Members Bill titled “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill”.
He explained that the Bill would focus on criminalizing adultery, as Ghana is over 90 percent Christian and Moslem.
“Adultery is contained in the Ten Commandments. Despite Sodom and Gomorrah, God, in His infinite wisdom, did not list LGBTQ in the Ten Commandments. Again, as you know, the Bible decrees the death penalty for adulterers in Leviticus 20:10.
"Since Ghana is over 90 percent Christian and Moslem, and the Qur’an and Hadith provide that in case of married male committing adultery with a married female, they shall receive one hundred lashes and be stoned to death. I am sure this bill will be roundly supported,” Professor Atuguba, who is Dean of the University of Ghana Law School, said this yesterday in Accra when he made a presentation on the topic,'“Achievement and Enduring Legacy of the 1992 Constitution'.
It was organized by the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), as part of the Academy’s 2021 founder’s week celebration. It was on the theme: “the 1992 constitution: fitness for purpose in the 21st century.”
Professor Atuguba defined adultery as sexual relations other than with one’s lawful wife, or husband, not wives or husbands.
“Attempted adultery is easy to determine from this definition. So, a Moslem married to more than one wife commits adultery if he has sexual relations with any of the wives, other than the first wife".
In close fidelity to the Bible and the Qur’an, the Criminal Procedure Act will be amended to include stoning as a method of execution, reserved for only this crime,” he said.
Professor Atuguba said medically, adultery increases the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, lowers educational and health outcomes, as many adulterous persons would rather spend money on amorous trips to Dubai and other places, plus expensive shopping, rather than invest in the education and health of their children.
“Naturally, we will start implementation with our representatives in Parliament, our honorable MPs, so that they indeed live honorable lives. We will apply resources to a new institution, the Watchdogs against Adultery.
"We will train them to smell, sense, discover, report, take action against adultery and attempted adultery, and be rewarded for anti- adultery activities,” he said.
Source: The Ghanaian Times
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I hope all the church leaders who are championing the anti LGBTQ ++ bill will also support this bill. Adultery is mentioned in the ten commandments.and should be of equal attention to the church.
I wonder if Atuguba really understand what Adultery means? This are the people who make other tribe keep denigrate we the people from the North. How can you say that a Moslem who has more than one wife and sleeps with any of the wives either than the first wife commits adultery? Pure ***barred word***. He has expose his ignorance of the Bible and Koran, even the very Law he claim to profess and wish I had the opportunity to face him. If not for his description of adultery, he Atuguba, would not have born. How many wives did his father have and which of the wives of his father does he belong. No wonder the man with the greater wisdom and knowledge ever on earth said: " And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know ***barred word*** and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowlege increaseth sorrow" Ecclesiastes 1:17-18. This is why the so-called Professors think they know all but rather they are the problem of this World.