Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, a member of parliament representing Ablekuma West, has urged women who are forced by their boyfriends into having oral and anal sex to call the police for help.
The lawmaker made it clear that anal intercourse, regardless of the gender engaged, will be prohibited and punishable under the Anti-LGBTQ bill.
She was speaking when the Promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values bill was being discussed in the legislature.
The legislator was concerned after hearing that wives had been threatened with divorce from their husbands if they refused to engage in these sexual behaviors.
“For the avoidance of doubt and the information of all Ghanaians, oral sex, anal regardless of whether it is between woman and man, man and man or woman and woman is illegal under our law and so if there is anybody who is practising oral sex or anal sex please note that what you are doing is against the existing law of this country”.
Addressing her colleagues on Wednesday, she insisted underscored the significance of the proposed bill in addressing such issues.
“And so I will urge any woman or young girl being subjected to any such practice under the guise of heterosexual sex to know that what they are being asked to do is against and law and must seek help from the Police. Anal sex is unnatural carnal knowledge, use of sex toys is unnatural carnal knowledge.”
This comes after the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament recommended that the contentious law be passed.
Others who spoke in favour of the bill included Bernard Ahiafor, Nelson Rockson Dafeamekpor, Sam George, Murtala Mohammed, and John Ntim Foruor.
Alban Bagbin, the Speaker of the House, urged lawmakers who rejected the measure to take a stand and be counted.
He received no reaction to his call, despite the fact that members of Parliament were unanimously in favour of the bill’s passage.
After the law has passed on its second reading, it will move on to the deliberation phase before a third reading to indicate passage.
