Don’t Abuse LGBTQI Members, Even if you Hate Their Actions - Peter Sedufia

Peter Sedufia has asked Ghanaians to stop taking the law into their hands when it comes to members of the LGBTQ+ community.

The celebrated movie director maintained that the law is fit enough to deal with the illegalities surrounding homosexual behaviour and it would be wrong for anyone to take it upon themselves to personally abuse the individuals.

According to the film writer, who is responsible for movies like Keteke (2017), Sidechic Gang (2018), and Aloevera (2020), no one has the right except the law, to abuse breakers of the law; as the people abusing are also inadvertently breaking the law.

“If the law does not permit something to happen then the thing shouldn’t happen. But again, in trying to apply those laws on those who are practicing what must not happen, you must also admit that they are human beings first and have their rights to be respected as humans alive so you don’t get out and raise cutlasses and try to lynch them."

"If it is the practice that you are against, make it clear that you are against the actions so when people flout the law you take them on legally and have them sanctioned for perpetrating the act. Don’t take the law into your own hands and start beating them or humiliating them because they are engaging in something illegal”.

This he said while speaking to Y 97.9 FM’s McCall on the Y Entertainment Podium.

He further extended his words to serious crimes as armed robbery, rape, and theft, as it would rather be expedient that perpetrators be made to face the law.

“We say don’t lynch armed robbers, don’t lynch thieves, don’t lynch rapists. These are very serious crimes but we still advocate that they are human beings first and so we take them through the legal system to get justice rather than taking the law into our own hands and harming them. That same principle applies to them [LGBTQ+]”, he concluded.