He has been condemned for "promoting hatred" by Ghana's Centre for Popular Education and Human Rights after the minister urged people to report suspected homosexuals.
[5] Paul Aidoo was born on 4 August 1958 at Sefwi-Ewiase in the Sefwi-Wiawso District of the Western Region of Ghana.
[6] Aidoo is a member of the National Democratic Congress and won the Sefwi-Wiawso seat in the Ghanaian parliamentary election in 2004.
(A provision in the criminal code section of Ghana's 1992 constitution condemns "unnatural carnal knowledge".
The constitution guarantees human rights "regardless of race, place of origin, political opinion, colour, religion, creed or gender", but not sexuality).