Ghana: Appointments Committee Vets Ministerial Nominees

The Minister-designate for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Andrew Egyapa Mercer, has said Ghana’s anti-LGBTQI+ legislation, Promotion of Proper Human Rights and Family Values Bill, would affect the country’s domestic tourism potentials.

He said the country stood losing US$3.8 billion in the next five to six years from its development partners, over the passage of the Bill, which seeks to proscribe same sex relationships and related matters.

Mr Mercer said if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo…