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Andrew Asiamah Amoako, the second deputy speaker of the Ghana Parliament (left), meets with Anita Among, then speaker of the Parliament of Uganda, during the Ghanaian lawmakers\u2019 visit to Uganda in February 2026. (Photo courtesy of the Parliament of Uganda)
\nAn anti-LGBTQI rights gathering scheduled for June 3-6 in Accra, Ghana, has been dealt a heavy blow as organizers learned that one of the conference\u2019s main architects, former Speaker of the Ugandan Parliament Anita Among, might not attend.
\nAmong was a key player in all engagements leading to the anti-LGBTQI+ gathering that has been dubbed the 4th African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family, Sovereignty and Values. She is currently under investigation over corruption allegations, with all her banking accounts frozen and her residence surrounded by security personnel.
\nThe previous three editions of the conference were held in Uganda, and Among played a leading role in organizing them. Despite repeated denials from the sponsors, the main mission for the conferences in Uganda was to drum up support for the enactment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) 2023 with Among as the \u201ccommanding officer.\u201d
\nThe decision to take the next conference to Ghana followed sustained parliamentary engagements between Ghana and Uganda and coincided with renewed anti-LGBTQI+ legislative momentum in the West African nation.
\nIn January 2024, Anita Among held a bilateral meeting with Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana Alban Bagbin on the sidelines of the 27th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSCOP). Bagbin commended Among for her \u201cpositive influence\u201d in supporting African values and traditions.
\nIn October 2024, Among attended the 2nd General Assembly of the Conference of Speakers and Presidents of African Legislatures (COSPAL) held in Accra, Ghana, during which she was elected vice chairperson of African Speakers and Presidents of Legislatures Forum.
\nIn June 2025, Bagbin visited Uganda at the invitation of Anita Among to attend the opening of a session of Parliament. During the visit, Speaker Among publicly thanked Speaker Bagbin and the people of Ghana for their solidarity during Uganda\u2019s legislative process to pass the AHA 2023.
\nBagbin reaffirmed his own firm opposition to LGBTQ+ rights during this visit, describing them as \u201cnot natural\u201d and \u201cnot African.\u201d
\nOn October 28, 2025, Among dispatched a delegation of Ugandan Members of Parliament to lobby Ghana to host the 4th edition of the conference.
\nIn one of the Ghanaian parliamentary proceedings, Speaker Bagbin welcomed the delegation and encouraged Ghanaian MPs to engage them in \u201cexperience learning\u201d on anti-LGBTQ legislation. He acknowledged that Uganda was \u201cahead\u201d of Ghana, having already enacted the Anti-Homosexuality Act and hosted previous editions of the conference.
\nOn Feb. 11, 2026, a delegation of legislators from Ghana visited Uganda to study and assess Uganda\u2019s experience in organizing and hosting the previous three editions of the anti-LGBTQI+ conference and their primary contact person was Anita Among.
\nAccording to a post on the Parliament of Uganda official Facebook page, the discussions between Among and the visiting delegation focused on drafting anti-homosexuality legislation, resisting external pressure, and preparations for the next African Value Conference. The post says she\u00a0assured Ghana of Uganda\u2019s readiness to provide institutional and technical backing should it decide to host the next conference.
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\u201cIf you have not picked everything you need, we can give you a team to support you. We shall be there and we will even deliver a paper on our experience from the Ugandan perspective\u201d Anita Among. Anita Among is under house arrest, though she helped plan June 3-6 conference Andrew Asiamah Amoako, the second deputy speaker of the Ghana Parliament (left), meets with Anita Among, then speaker of the Parliament of Uganda, during the Ghanaian lawmakers\u2019 visit to Uganda in February 2026. (Photo courtesy of the Parliament of Uganda) An anti-LGBTQI …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_3659155457675267_172535249438148":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from.jpg",1600,1200,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from-768x576.jpg",618,464,true],"large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from-1024x768.jpg",618,464,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from-1536x1152.jpg",1536,1152,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from.jpg",1600,1200,false],"tie-small":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from-110x75.jpg",110,75,true],"tie-medium":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from-310x165.jpg",310,165,true],"tie-large":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from-310x205.jpg",310,205,true],"slider":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from-660x330.jpg",660,330,true],"big-slider":["https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Anti-LGBTQ-gathering-in-Ghana-likely-to-miss-key-participant-from-1050x525.jpg",1050,525,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavieradioug.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAmong also used the meeting to encouraged her guests in particular and African leaders at large to urgently enact what she described as \u201claws that preserve African values and cultures,\u201d in order to promote homegrown solutions and strengthen the continent\u2019s sovereignty.
\n\u201cOur mission is simple. We came to benchmark, to discuss what we have done so far, to identify where we may be falling short and to seek direction from the pioneers. From what we have observed and learned from Hon. Sarah Opendi\u2019s team [from Uganda], we are confident and comfortable in hosting the fourth session,\u201d the head of the Ghanian delegation, Andrew Amaoko told Ugandan media.
\nOn April 16, 2026, Among dispatched another delegation of MPs led by her right-hand woman Sarah Opendi to Ghana where they held high-level engagements in Accra in the buildup to the 4th African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family, Sovereignty and Values. The Ugandan delegation held separate meetings with the Parliament of Ghana, the Ministry of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations and key sponsors of Ghana\u2019s Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025.
\nAlthough there hasn\u2019t been any official communication about Among\u2019s participation, observers say it is highly unlikely that Ugandan authorities will let her leave Uganda while she is under house arrest.
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