Ghana human rights Commissioner Joseph Whittal encourages LGBTQ Ghanaians not to flee the country, despite the possibility that Parliament’s harsh anti-LGBTQ+ bill might survive a review by the Supreme Court and be signed by President Nana Akufo-Addo. In an interview with the BBC, Whittal said that the anti-LGBTQ bill “seems to overreach” and, as the commission told Parliament before the bill was passed, that it encroaches on the constitutional right to association — “a fundamental human right”. “Any attempt to have a bill that attempts to take away the right of any group of persons in Ghana from associating, as this bill attempts to do, is a constitutional overreach,” he said.