Official calls for conjugal prison visits

Sunyani, June 2, GNA - A health coordinator in the Brong-Ahafo Region has called for conjugal relationship to be permitted in prisons and other institutions to help curb the practice of homosexuality and lesbianism among inmates and students.

Mr. Albert Henyo, the Primary Health Coordinator of West Brong Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, said the upsurge of homosexuality and lesbianism was very alarming and was most common in institutions like prisons and schools.

Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani on Wednesday, he called on married men and women incarcerated in prisons and other institutions to be given the right to conjugal visits.

He stressed the need for society to come together to fight the menace, which he explained was not healthy for national development. Mr. Henyo called on traditional authorities, religious bodies and society at large to work assiduously to eliminate the canker as the practic= e could spell doom for the country.