Ningo Prampram MP Sam Nartey George blamed the delay in the passage of the anti-LGBTQ+ bill on Attorney General Godfed Dame, who he described as a “throttle of the wheels of parliament”.
According to him, the controversial bill would leave the committee stage without a late memo received from Dame and her inability to discuss the same subject with the committee afterwards.
He hinted that members of the House Constitutional and Legal Committees could call the attorney general a bluff if the delay persists.
“Respectfully I will say the Attorney General is filibustering with the Bill. I will say the Attorney General is a clog in the wheel of parliament and he must take notice that we are taking keen notice of it and we will flex our muscle as parliamentarians very soon with him,” 3news.com quotes Sam George as having told Johnnie Hughes on 3FM Sunrise Morning Show.
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The congressman added that the GA did not use the opportunity for memos from affected individuals and groups to submit its memo later, which delayed the commission’s work.
“After we finished with the work of all the 176 memos we had and the committee has done the clause-by-clause consideration, it is now the Attorney General saying he has a memo to bring” he lamented, adding they are hoping to meet with Mr Dame on Tuesday.
“We are looking to see if Tuesday he will be available. We will address his memo because his memo is something that we will dispatch in just 30 minutes because the substance of his memo has already been dealt with at the Clause-by-Clause Consideration so that we can go to the floor. He is the Attorney General so he will be given the opportunity to come and debate on the floor.”
The anti-LGBTQ+ bill titled “Promoting Human Rights to Proper Sexuality and the Ghanaian Family Values Bill” is a bill that was sponsored by several MPs and introduced to parliament in 2021. Its main objective is to legislate against homosexuality and related activities in Ghana among other things.
