There is mounting pressure on the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to sanction the Member of Parliament (MP) for Daboya/Mankarigu constituency who proposed hanging or stoning to death of adulterous women.
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Pressure Groups Want "Sharia Law" MP, Nelson Baani, Gone.
This man predates dinosaurs and let me inform him that there is no Jurassic Park to bring him back to life in the 21st Century. He doesn't deserve the seat he occupies. If his party has any spine or backbone, they will cut him out of the party
The MP, Nelson Abudu Baani, made the call during a debate on the Interstate Succession Bill in Parliament last Thursday.
He was of the view that including this punishment in the bill will serve as a deterrent, as well as force women to be faithful to their husbands. His suggestion has been widely condemned by Human Rights Activists and the general public who have described the proposal “regressive.”
Vibrant pressure group, OccupyGhana has, in a statement, demanded the resignation of Daboya/Makarigu Member of Parliament (MP), Nelson Abudu Baani, for proposing that Ghana’s Parliament should pass a law that sanctions stoning to death and hanging as punishment for cheating wives.
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The group said the northern MP must retract his “misogynistic statement” and apologise to the people of Ghana for same.
The group also wants the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur to “immediately and in the strongest terms possible, condemn, unequivocally, this heinous statement, and support our call for his resignation.”
The statement expressed disappointment that Oye Lithur has not come out to speak on the MP’s “repulsive viewpoint that has deeply offended right-thinking Ghanaian men and women.”
“Indeed earlier this month, Minister Nana Oye Lithur spoke at the CEDAW conference boldly defending Ghana’s gender record. To leave Nelson Abudu Baani’s reprehensible statement without comment and for him to continue to be paid by the Ghanaian taxpayer to make laws for this country create a blot on this record.”
“The danger of Nelson Abudu Baani’s inflammatory views can be seen in the actions of violent groups with like-minded extreme anti-women ideologies such as the , the Islamic State and in our own West African region, , which are wreaking so much terror against women and whole communities,” OccupyGhana said.
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The group said it considers the silence of the Gender Minister “unnerving”, adding that Nana Oye Lithur and her ministry must “speak now” on the matter.
Popular legal practitioner, Ace Ankomah also supported the calls and said: “This man predates dinosaurs and let me inform him that there is no Jurassic Park to bring him back to life in the 21st Century. He doesn’t deserve the seat he occupies. If his party has any spine or backbone, they will cut him out of the party,” he demanded.
According to Mr. Ankomah, “this is the kind of thinking we don’t need in the 21st Century. This is backward…it is morally wrong [for a woman to cheat on her husband] but men can do it and not be stoned? When a woman does it, it’s adultery and when a man does it, it’s swag?” he queried.
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