The President of Ghana has vowed to continue persecuting gays – just days after UK Prime Minister David Cameron said financial aid would depend on them implementing ethical human rights.
The comments, by John Atta Mills, seems to be in direct retaliation to Cameron's address at the Commonwealth leaders' annual summit in Australia.
"I, as president of this nation, will never initiate or support any
attempts to legalise homosexuality in Ghana," Atta Mills told
reporters.
"Cameron does not have the right to direct other
sovereign nations as to what they should do especially where their
societal norms and ideals are different from those that exist in
Britain."
He added: "We recognise the assistance we receive from donors but we will not accept aid coming with strings attached," he said.
Currently, Britain is one of the main budgetary donors to Ghana.
Some critics, including Peter Tatchell, have agreed that Cameron is wrong to threaten the withdrawal of aid. But many PinkPaper.com readers agree with his approach.