Stoning, hanging cheating wives: "Let’s scrutinise our MPs’ belief system"

A former Vice Presidential Candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has said Daboya/Mankarigu Legislator Nelson Abudu Baani is ignorant of his role as a Parliamentarian, thus his proposal that the Chamber passes a law to sanction stoning to death or hanging of adulterous wives.

“…To find that it’s being discussed today in this century is quite interesting, especially when it’s reported to be coming from someone who is supposed to be in charge of legislature: that for me is a bit unnerving because what was the point? He wants that thing to be part of the law? What kind of law is that? What will be the basis for that?” she wondered.

“If someone is cheating in a marriage, you walk away, you don’t stone anybody to death: that for me is a crime, so I don’t even think this needs to be debated,” Frimponmaa said.

Nana Frimponmaa told STARR NEWS’ Abena Owusu Nyamekye in an interview that Baani’s sharia-like legislative proposal makes it pertinent for the electorate to scrutinise the kind of people they vote for as representatives in Parliament.

“For me this is the issue why we need to look at parliament again…we the people must look at the people we take to parliament: who they are made of, their belief system and all that because to find a parliamentarian asking that women who commit adultery be stoned to death, when the constitution does not allow people to be stoned to death, means that that person is not going to go to parliament with any understanding, indeed he has no understanding of why he is there and what he’s there for and therefore will not be able to put up any kind of legislature, any kind of bill, nothing that will really move the community forward,” the traditional leader said.

She said: “This is his own belief system that he’s bringing regardless of what the laws of the country says and we need people who are going to go to parliament understanding what the need of the community is, what the laws of the country are and what needs to be changed, what needs to be added and what needs to be expanded so that people’s lives will be improved.”

Despite the barrage of flak against him, the MP insists his proposal is a good one and told STARR NEWS in an interview Friday that he will not mind if his own wife is stoned to death or hanged for adultery.