'The billboards are our way of reminding and celebrating the charitable culture of Ghanaians,' the group said in a statement. They said they had broken no laws to advocate for their rights. LGBTQ Rights Ghana, the activist group that put up the posters, said their message in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale was simply to promote tolerance. Videos and photos posted on social media networks showed several slashed posters, in a heap on the ground. 'So long as they mount those billboards, we would bring them down,' opposition lawmaker Samuel George, one of the sponsors of the new law, said on Twitter this week.Īnother poster was taken down in the northern region of Tamale on Wednesday.
The posters quickly prompted calls from conservatives for police to take them down. LGBTQ activists said they put up posters several metres high in Accra and two other cities, with phrases such as 'Love, Tolerance and Acceptance'.
