The University of Ghana has strongly refuted claims suggesting that its recently revised statutes support or promote LGBTQ+ activities, describing such allegations as baseless and misleading.
The claims arose following comments made by Moses Foh-Amoaning during an interview on Accra-based Onua FM, which the university says misrepresented the purpose of the revisions.
In an official statement, the university stressed that the allegations were “entirely false, misleading, and defamatory,” and that they mischaracterised the institution’s intentions. Management explained that the 2024 review of the statutes was conducted fully in accordance with Ghanaian law and the university’s established regulatory procedures.
The university clarified that the updated statutes contain no provisions promoting, permitting, or recognising LGBTQ+ activities. The revisions, it stated, were purely linguistic. Gendered pronouns such as “he,” “him,” “she,” and “her” were replaced with gender-neutral terms like “they” and “their” to reduce repetition and ensure inclusive representation of all genders without changing the meaning or intent of the statutes.
The university also highlighted that the use of singular “they/them” has been widely accepted in modern English for over two decades, appearing in academic, legal, and religious texts. As an example, the university cited the 2011 New International Version (NIV) Bible, which uses singular “they” in James 4:17: “If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.”
The University of Ghana concluded by urging the public to verify information from credible sources before drawing conclusions and reaffirmed that its recent statutory revisions were aimed solely at improving clarity and inclusivity in language.
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