Ntim Fordjour accuses government of 'arrogance of power'

The Member of Parliament for Assin South, Reverend John Ntim Fordjour has strongly rejected claims by Minister of State in charge of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, that concerns over alleged LGBT content in school curricula amount to “overzealous charlatanism’.

He has described the government’s posture as arrogant and deceptive.

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Responding to Kwakye Ofosu’s dismissal of the allegations in a TV3 interview on January 14, 2026, the legislator accused government of deliberately introducing LGBT-related elements into teaching and learning materials, including teacher manuals used in secondary schools.

“That is most arrogant. You have voted to come to power and the parent who voted for you, whose child you have introduced LGBT elements into their teaching and learning materials, teacher manuals… you are poisoning their minds,” Ntim Fordjour said.

He alleged that students are being taught concepts that contradict Ghana’s cultural values.

“They are being taught that they can have sexual pleasures and feelings very absurd and gender should no longer be about male or female and it’s about whatever they feel and they can even feel both,” he claimed.

The lawmaker took particular issue with Kwakye Ofosu’s characterisation of critics as overzealous, arguing that parents had legitimate concerns after what he described as clear evidence.

“We have caught you red-handed and asking you to do the right thing. You are insulting us that we have been overzealous and we are being carried away,” he stated.

Ntim Fordjour further accused the government of misusing public funds to produce what he termed ‘LGBT-laced’ materials.

“The millions of parents who voted for you, whose children are in these secondary schools, whose taxpayer’s money they used to pay you, you are using the taxpayer’s money to pay yourself and to print textbooks that are LGBT-laced and poisoned,” he alleged.

According to him, government’s acknowledgement that some materials would be removed amounts to an admission of wrongdoing.

“You have admitted you are going to find a way to remove it and you are telling these parents that they're overzealous and they are carried away. That is the arrogance of power. This is the most arrogant height that a government can ever express,” he added.

He warned that lessons taught in schools have a lasting impact on children, often outweighing teachings from home or religious institutions.

“Whatever they teach them in school is dangerous to remove it because if you’re a parent, what you tell your children pretty much will be compared with what their teachers tell them,” he said.

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“It doesn’t matter whatever you preach your congregation… What they are taught in school carries greater weight,” he added.

Ntim Fordjour concluded by insisting that public pressure would continue until, in his words, what he described as attempts to normalize LGBT and transgender issues in Ghanaian education are completely halted.



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