THE MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS VICTORIA NUKPEZA

FREE PREVIEW EXCERPT ( PAGE 96 - PAGE 99 ) "“ His Majesty Togbe Nukpeza V: This is a happy occasion and I welcome you all to the royal garden. We have started the celebration since yesterday. Today is the second segment of the celebration to which we have specifically invited the youth. I intended giving my beloved spouse a befitting Birthday Celebration. She is my Sweet Heart and my life partner. She has been very serviceable to me. Above all, she is the mother of our children. She bore children to inherit us and to bear my name. The ancestral proverb says: “Ne ati ku, ati ta de to na” (When a tree dies, even the stump sprouts new shoots). Therefore in terms of the human species, the human species may not die off but live forever. After all, “whatever God does, endures forever.” I seize this opportunity to appeal to the youth who are here in their numbers never to follow strange foreign ideas. You saw how the nation was very united in mourning the passing on of our former President, His Excellency Professor John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills. Many great things he did during his brief tenure of office as President of the Republic. You may recall your encounter with him and the many things that he told you as pieces of advice. He gave prominent appointments to young men and young ladies, thus allowing the new generation to take up strategic positions and to learn to take over from the older generation. I hope you may also recall his words: “Don’t allow anybody to mislead you.” His name is in golden letters in our national history when he said that he would “never” accept any aid that is conditional to adopting or going along with the policy of gay rights. Putting one and two together, without any special analysis, you can deduce that “gay rights” would mean no children; gay rights would mean our population will gradually decrease and there would be, in the remote future, a country of no citizens if such policy were accepted by all and sundry. We shall have a country which will turn into a country which will not just be depopulated but may be called “no man’s land.” (Clapping and jubilation in support of His Majesty) I may give you a small example. Reading through the Encarta Encyclopaedia, I observed, to my shock, that the population of certain developed countries are already gradually decreasing and some of such countries started importing labour from other countries. History tells us that some of the developed countries used to have large families numbering between six and twenty children. Families in some of those countries recently started to have less number of children. It is normal but then some families there later married and preferred to have no children at all. Of late, however, “gay rights” policy has become entrenched in some of these countries. So, there is no population growth in some of these countries. Worse of all, the population in some of these countries naturally started nose-diving; there are more old men than the youth. Well, you could check it out in Google search, MSN or Yahoo search. In brief, to us, gay rights policy simply means zero children, zero population growth and gradual extinction of our human species. Gay rights policy is virtually an alarm bell, tolling and echoing around the world about the demise of the family!!! It is ringing with an echo around the world. Gay rights policy is a dangerous omen for planet Earth which gradually may become “No man’s land.” The United Nations has an Agency for Children and another Agency for Development. However, I do not know whether there is UN Agency for the survival of the Human Family. After all, no family, no children! In this regard, the Gay Rights policy throws a serious challenge to the United Nations which is our collective organisation for our collective world security. Here in Ghana, the people believe in the family, they believe in freedom and the rule of Law. The right of the individual is enshrined in the Constitution. However, the Constitution is simply silent over the “gay issue” because that element is black-listed in the mind of the people. Gay rights policy cannot be accepted as a state policy by our people. From generation to generation, the people believe in the family. The father, mother and child constitute the foundation of the nuclear family and the nuclear family is the vital foundation of the African extended family and the entire society. The family is a Sacred Institution in the African society. That is our culture. The French people have a lovely saying that “A chaque peuple, sa culture.” (To each people, their own culture). On Her Majesty’s birth day, let’s celebrate the family. As President Mills took a policy decision, in the name of the Government and people of Ghana, to assert the Family as a sacred institution of the African culture and tradition, I thought it wise to pay a glowing tribute to this noble son of Africa as our families are here gathered for the birthday celebration of Her Majesty....."