Bono Youth wage war against LGBTQI

The Youth have rallied their support behind their Dormaahene saying, "we Bonos and by large Ghanaians are not barbaric and hence may not take the laws into our own hands and bludgeon to death those caught in this abominable act."

Oct 12, 2021 - 12:00 Updated: Oct 12, 2021 - 12:03

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The Bono Youth has thrown their support to the Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeoyo Agyemang Badu II on his decision to stand against LGBTQI+

Osagyefo went wild at Ghana’s Parliament for the ongoing controversies surrounding the passage of the anti LGBTQI bill and has threatened to mass up over 1000 youth to the Parliament house should they fail to pass the LGBTQI bill.

Discussions about LGBTQ+ rights in Ghana touch on sensitive chords: culture and religion. Crusaders behind the bill base their arguments on the belief that LGBTQ+ activities are alien to the country’s cultural norms and values, and are also frowned upon by all major religious groups in Ghana.

In a statement signed by the Bono Twi campaign, Bonofie, Bowia Ensemble, Voice of the Lord ministry and Nana Krontihene of Buoyem, the Bono Youth have declared their stands solidly behind the Dormaahene.

They have guaranteed to defend the decent customs of Bono to sustain the upcoming generations than promote the gratification of the flesh.

"There are pressing needs that demand our arsenals to battle than glamorizing sensuality which when allowed festering will not leave an inheritance to our beautiful Bono and Akan culture," they wrote.

"Before the emergence of Western-style democracy we'd been pro-life and needed the numbers in everything we did - as a workforce, and to the battlefield.

"Then again, isn't conventional medicine proving that sexually infected diseases precisely HIV AIDS is more prevalent amongst the gay community?

"Are we adequate in finding cures to our many ailments lest we glorify palpable ominous catastrophe?

"What's more democratic rights a man will have than the ability to choose the number of wives he can minister to their needs than being coerced to contract marriage only in the name of gratifying the flesh?" the statement added.

Below is the release was written by Charles Yeboah on behalf of the youth.

We Bono youths are solidly behind Dormaahene on his radical approach to the Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill

Nana needs our backing. We should as all true Bono youths rally behind him.

In our native Bono language, we say: sɛ ɔdehyeɛ anko a, akoa dwane.

To wit: when vice prevails, and the nobility play possum, the seat of honor becomes a mere straw.

Nobility has spoken, and indeed, against the prevalence of vice.

Oseadeɛyɔ Dr. Nana Agyemang Badu II, the Paramount Chief of Dormaa Traditional Area in the Bono region, has spoken as the Akan piece (firstborn of the Akan tribe).

The traditional leader has thrown his weight behind some parliamentarians who have tabled a bill in the august house to seek punitive measures against the gay practitioners.

Who are these so-called prominent academicians and respected individuals who support LGBTQ+ activities in the country?

Is their education meant to add up to our misery or alleviate it?

Is it education to promote activities that stymie the clock of procreation?

Is it a higher education to think because we Africans must be spoonfed by those beguiling baits by the westerners in loans our anus should be the conduit to our purse?

Nana Agyemang Badu maybe per his social standing and private life as a High court judge might be a bit diplomatic with his radical approach to this filthy subculture to ours that's being pampered to assume a noble seat.

By nature, we Bonos and by large Ghanaians are not barbaric and hence may not take the laws into our own hands and bludgeon to death those caught in this abominable act.

But knowing very well our representatives in the supposed august house carries our voice, and must be the custodians of our culture which undergirds our republican status, we'll square it out with them brutally if they're not led by common sense in their discussion and subsequent passage of the anti-gay bill in their pigeonholes.

If they the so-called gay advocates are toxified by overindulgence in all fads that influx our culture and would spite the sacred dictates of our values and customs, they should be reminded that not long ago the palace gave a go-ahead to the ostracism of those who can't see in the beauty of our endowed maidens but will unashamedly share their beds with fellow bearded rigid men.

If per democracy we can't physically throw them out as outcasts, don't we hold unrestricted rights to make pariah in them and declare them persona non Grata in our traditional areas?

There are pressing needs that demand our arsenals to battle than glamorizing sensuality which when allowed festering will not leave an inheritance to our beautiful Bono and Akan culture.

Before the emergence of Western-style democracy we'd been pro-life and needed the numbers in everything we did - as a workforce, and to the battlefield.

Then again, isn't conventional medicine proving that sexually infected diseases precisely HIV AIDS is more prevalent amongst the gay community?

Are we adequate in finding cures to our many ailments lest we glorify palpable ominous catastrophe?

What's more democratic rights a man will have than the ability to choose the number of wives he can minister to their needs than being coerced to contract marriage only in the name of gratifying the flesh?

Isn't it risible to outlaw polygamy and give voice to pansexuals?

One more thing we have said to those calling themselves academicians promoting the LGBTQ+ is that: we Bonos give our daughters in marriage to noblemen. And our sons understand family to mean paternal side as well as the maternal side.

This has sustained our tradition to date. And that we'll guard with all the strength in us embedded.

Any book of the different theorems to how we marry has never tested the test of science which should even be a no-brainer to today's advancement of technology. We therefore will not hazard any trajectory derailment into conflicting the word of our forebears.

No means no to Lesbians, gays bisexuals, transgender, and all its pluses.

Yes, we're a Bono united behind Dormaahene in this battle for our soul and sovereignty. We're numbered not only in our tens of thousands but in our millions, snaking about all the streets of Ghana to wage this war.

Nana, Nya nkwa daa (live long).

W'aka y'adwene ama yɛ (you've spoken our mind).

Bonoman taa w'akyi (Bonos are solidly behind you ).

Signatories to this communiqué