The University of Ghana has officially confirmed the suspension of the students involved in the Kwapong hall incident. We are monitoring the independent investigation process to ensure the administration follows through on its public commitments. This outcome establishes a precedent for accountability regarding human rights violations on campus.
January 27, 2024
University of Ghana: Investigate and Suspend Students Involved in Human Rights Violation
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My name is Papa Kojo, I am a LGBTIQ rights activist living and working in Ghana. I work to document and curate LGBTIQ elders and history in Ghana and West Africa.
On January 14, 2024, an alleged gay man was publicly beaten at Kwapong hall, a student residence within the University of Ghana campus. This event is believed to have taken place between 11 am to 3pm and in videos circulating online, the alleged gay man is recorded naked weeping and begging for his life. Here is a link to the videos (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-6N_FudANr...).
This is an affront to human dignity and decency and no one (student or not) regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity should experience. I would also like to point out that citizens in Ghana are increasingly becoming homophobic and harming people perceived to be members of the LGBTIQ community. This impunity has been associated to the systemically endorsed homophobia where perpetrators of harm are often protected without any punishment or justice for victims.
By signing this petition, I hope that we can use our collective voice to draw the attention of the University Ghana and its partner institutions to engage with the LGBTIQ community to:
1. Appoint an independent investigator approved by all stakeholders to investigate this issue.
2. Release a new public statement based on independent and certified investigation that does not solely platform hearsay from perpetrators of abuse.
3. Suspend or rusticate with immediate effect any student believed to have had a hand in this as they pose an imminent danger to other Ghanaian and international students who are open or perceived members of the LGBTIQ community
Updates
January 17, 2024
The administration at the University of Ghana has acknowledged receipt of our initial notification. We are currently preparing a formal letter to their legal department to outline the specific requirements for an independent investigation into the incident at Kwapong Hall.
Reached 100 supporters
January 17, 2024
69 Comments
We shouldn't even have to sign a petition for this. It should be common sense that any student who parades another around campus naked to abuse and degrade them must be punished! A reputable university would be ashamed that this was not only allowed to happen, but also not swiftly addressed.
It's unjust to abuse others due to their sexual orientation. The students involved must be brought to justice and the victim a therapy and compensation.
No one should be humiliated for who they are. These abuses are criminal and traumatising. The university must hold a higher standard of integrity and bring to just those who violated the dignity of this gay man.
Those guys who did that should not go unpunished.Watching th video made me so emotional and pained...
Dehumanising treatment from an institution of higher learning with impunity is unacceptable in today's world.
It is homophobia that is unAfrican. Homosexuality just is. I weep for Ghana.
Disgraceful behavior. More needs to be done to protect the lives of the most vulnerable in society
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The University of Ghana has officially confirmed the suspension of the students involved in the Kwapong hall incident. We are monitoring the independent investigation process to ensure the administration follows through on its public commitments. This outcome establishes a precedent for accountability regarding human rights violations on campus.
January 27, 2024
University of Ghana: Investigate and Suspend Students Involved in Human Rights Violation
Final supporters
Hello, thank you for visiting this petition.
My name is Papa Kojo, I am a LGBTIQ rights activist living and working in Ghana. I work to document and curate LGBTIQ elders and history in Ghana and West Africa.
On January 14, 2024, an alleged gay man was publicly beaten at Kwapong hall, a student residence within the University of Ghana campus. This event is believed to have taken place between 11 am to 3pm and in videos circulating online, the alleged gay man is recorded naked weeping and begging for his life. Here is a link to the videos (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-6N_FudANr...).
This is an affront to human dignity and decency and no one (student or not) regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity should experience. I would also like to point out that citizens in Ghana are increasingly becoming homophobic and harming people perceived to be members of the LGBTIQ community. This impunity has been associated to the systemically endorsed homophobia where perpetrators of harm are often protected without any punishment or justice for victims.
By signing this petition, I hope that we can use our collective voice to draw the attention of the University Ghana and its partner institutions to engage with the LGBTIQ community to:
1. Appoint an independent investigator approved by all stakeholders to investigate this issue.
2. Release a new public statement based on independent and certified investigation that does not solely platform hearsay from perpetrators of abuse.
3. Suspend or rusticate with immediate effect any student believed to have had a hand in this as they pose an imminent danger to other Ghanaian and international students who are open or perceived members of the LGBTIQ community
Updates
January 17, 2024
The administration at the University of Ghana has acknowledged receipt of our initial notification. We are currently preparing a formal letter to their legal department to outline the specific requirements for an independent investigation into the incident at Kwapong Hall.
Reached 100 supporters
January 17, 2024
69 Comments
University of Ghana must do the needful to get all involving individuals who assaulted the queer person, out of the university's community. They are violent and must not be entertained for a second in the university. Such barbaric vile behaviour does not befit to exist in the premier university.
We shouldn't even have to sign a petition for this. It should be common sense that any student who parades another around campus naked to abuse and degrade them must be punished! A reputable university would be ashamed that this was not only allowed to happen, but also not swiftly addressed.
It's unjust to abuse others due to their sexual orientation. The students involved must be brought to justice and the victim a therapy and compensation.
No one should be humiliated for who they are. These abuses are criminal and traumatising. The university must hold a higher standard of integrity and bring to just those who violated the dignity of this gay man.
Those guys who did that should not go unpunished.Watching th video made me so emotional and pained...
Dehumanising treatment from an institution of higher learning with impunity is unacceptable in today's world.
It is homophobia that is unAfrican. Homosexuality just is. I weep for Ghana.
Disgraceful behavior. More needs to be done to protect the lives of the most vulnerable in society
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University of Ghana must do the needful to get all involving individuals who assaulted the queer person, out of the university's community. They are violent and must not be entertained for a second in the university. Such barbaric vile behaviour does not befit to exist in the premier university.