Former Deputy Minister for Education and Assin South MP, Hon. Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has accused powerful actors within Ghana’s education bureaucracy of staging an ideological coup, secretly forcing LGBTQ content into basic schools in open defiance of parliament, government policy and the clearly stated values of the Ghanaian people.
According to the MP, this was no oversight, no technical slip, and no innocent mistake. It was a calculated, covert operation designed to bypass democratic approval and quietly impose a deeply contested ideology on Ghanaian children through the back door of a teachers’ manual.
“This is sabotage, plain and simple. The curriculum was cleaned. The content was removed. Yet the same material mysteriously reappears. That does not happen by accident. It happens because someone decided to override the will of the nation,” NtimFordjour declared.
The MP insists that after the approved curriculum was deliberately sanitised to reflect Ghana’s cultural, constitutional and moral framework, unknown hands moved to reinsert rejected LGBTQ concepts into the teachers’ manual, an act he describes as institutional insubordination and intellectual fraud.
He is demanding an immediate parliamentary inquisition into the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), the Ministry of Education and all officials involved in the production, approval and nationwide distribution of the 2025 teachers’ manual.
“This is not a policy disagreement. It is a breach of trust at the highest level. And breaches of trust demand consequences,” he said.
The Smoking Gun
Ntim Fordjour points to explicit definitions in the manual describing gender identity as an internal experience that may not align with biological sex and acknowledging identities beyond the male–female binary, content he says flatly contradicts Ghana’s constitutional understanding of gender and common sense.
That such material was placed before basic school teachers, he argues, is not merely inappropriate, it is reckless and dangerous, especially given the age and vulnerability of the learners involved.
‘This Could Not Have Happened Without Approval’
Drawing on his experience as a former Deputy Minister, Ntim Fordjour rejected any attempt to deflect responsibility onto lower-level technocrats. He insists that no teachers’ manual can introduce concepts not contained in the approved curriculum without senior-level clearance.
Under the NPP administration, he noted, teachers’ manuals were limited to Year One and never contained such material.
Yet the Year Two Teachers’ Manual printed in July 2025 under the current government suddenly and brazenly introduces LGBTQ concepts that had already been rejected.
“This means one thing –someone signed off on this. Someone overruled prior decisions. And someone must answer.”
MP Ntim Fordjour warned that LGBTQ advocacy is part of a coordinated global ideological project, not an isolated classroom issue.
He questioned why Ghana is being pushed in this direction at a time when even some advanced democracies are rolling back, reassessing, or outright rejecting similar policies.
“To impose this on Ghanaian children is not progress. It is ideological colonisation.”
Parliament Must Act or Be Complicit
The MP has now formally petitioned Parliament to launch a full-scale probe, demand the immediate withdrawal of the offending manuals, identify all officials involved and impose strict sanctions where culpability is established.
He warned that failure to act would amount to institutional complicity, signalling that unelected bureaucrats can override national values without consequence.
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