The Majority Chief Whip in Parliament, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has dismissed viral images of a gay couple kissing beneath Ghana’s Independence Arch as fake, asserting they were generated using artificial intelligence (AI).
Addressing the matter on the floor of Parliament on Friday, July 11,2025, the Member of Parliament for South Dayi said the images lacked authenticity and should not form the basis of any parliamentary action.
“The matters that the First Deputy Minority Whip alluded to regarding the fact that two persons were seen kissing at the Independence Square are totally falsehood.
“It was an AI-generated image posted by someone onto his social media handle, so my brother Habib has no documents to stand on predicate upon which he will be demanding that the Minister of Foreign Affairs be invited to speak to such matters and also to justify why we abstained from a certain vote at the UN”, he stated.
His comments come in response to concerns raised in Parliament over images of a South African gay couple, Lue and Rue, that went viral on social media.
The images showed the pair holding hands, kissing, and wrapped in the Ghanaian flag at iconic national monuments including the Independence Square and the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum.
The couple has since admitted that the act was a deliberate protest against Ghana’s controversial anti-LGBTQI+ Bill.
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