Paul Evans Aidoo A Ghanaian government minister and ex-school headmaster who wants to rid society of gay people is urging people to report those they suspect to be homosexual. Paul Evans Aidoo urged landlords and tenants in a position to spy on on people to come forward to the police if they suspected someone was gay so they can be taken to court to see if they could be charged. Homosexual intimacy is still illegal in the country and Ghana's Centre for Popular Education and Human Rights says Aidoo's comments could endanger the nation's underground gay community. "There's no way you can be arresting people on the basis of perception," a Centre spokesperson told the BBC. "It is promoting hatred - and it's creating a divided society where gay people will be antagonised or attacked or blackmailed," he said. The Christian Council of Ghana recently held a press conference condemning homosexuality.
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First published: Saturday, 23rd July 2011 - 12:21pm