Sam George maintains 2014 stance on LGBTQ+ rights despite outspoken campaign

Contrary to his heightened campaign against the LGBTQ+ community in Ghana, Minister-designate for Communications Digital Technology, and Innovations, Sam Nartey George, has affirmed that his views on the subject, expressed in 2014, remain unchanged.

In a 2014 interview with JoyNews, Sam George stated that Ghana’s constitution guarantees rights to all individuals, regardless of their personal preferences or beliefs.

His remarks at the time were as follows:

“I believe this matter has been overflogged and is being pushed to serve a parochial political agenda. Irrespective of my personal opinion on homosexuality, the constitution of this country remains supreme. It enjoins that everybody has rights, and those rights must be protected. This principle is enshrined in the preamble of the constitution of Ghana.

“We must focus on issues that are of necessity to the Ghanaian people. The amount of airtime we have wasted—yes, wasted, not spent—discussing LGBTQ+ matters, when we have pressing concerns such as water shortages, power crises, and rising fuel prices, is alarming. These are the issues that affect everyday Ghanaians. They do not care whether the president’s [Mahama’s] friend, who published a book, is gay.”

When he appeared before Parliament’s Appointments Committee in 2025, he was asked if his views had changed. In response, he stated: “Mr Chairman, my views have not changed.”

The Ningo-Prampram MP has been a leading figure in the fight against LGBTQ+ rights in Ghana. Alongside other MPs, he has consistently argued that Ghanaian and African culture only recognises marriage between a man and a woman.

He has also asserted that a person’s sex, often confused with gender, is determined by God at birth and cannot be reassigned thereafter.

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