Respectfully,

I offer the following remarks with due respect to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the many distinguished minds who serve at the Ministry and beyond, even as I remain compelled to speak candidly.

My wise Anlo forebears once said, “Even the chicken’s rear cannot guard its secrets when the wind decides to speak.” Put another way, “The privacy of a chicken’s backside is often betrayed by the whims of the wind.”

The attached press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a masterclass in strategic evasion, hoping curious minds will fail to see through the veil. After years of loud, incendiary rhetoric about the anti-LGBTQ+ bill—used as political currency in opposition and to inflame populist sentiment—the government now pretends the recent UN vote was apolitical and procedural. But you cannot build a political brand on “cultural purity,” sponsor a bill that criminalises identity, threaten dissenters, and then feign neutrality when the world asks a basic and harmless moral question: Should LGBTQ+ persons be protected from violence and discrimination?

To say the vote was not about LGBTQ+ rights is troubling intellectual dishonesty that will appeal only to the uninitiated. The resolution is precisely about protecting LGBTQ+ individuals from harm—something any nation claiming to uphold human rights should embrace. Yet Ghana lugubriously abstained. And then, when under intense fire, cloaked that decision in a hollow appeal to constitutional non-discrimination.

This is not consistency—it is cowardice. It reveals a regime caught between international expectations and the ghosts of its own populist manipulation. The abstention, far from being a principled stand, exposes the deep contradiction between Ghana’s global diplomacy and its domestic political theatre.

As I wrote earlier: to abstain is not neutrality—it is the silence of uncertainty. Or worse, the cowardice of calculated diplomacy by a regime birthed, in part, through the cynical weaponisation of the anti-gay bill.

Vindication, indeed, is in the womb of time.

– rD.s

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