According to Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor, the ranking member of the Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, the committee’s report on the Proper Human Sexual Rights & Ghanaian Family Values Bill, also known as the Anti-LGBTQI Bill, was laid before Parliament.
He expressed hope that the report would be discussed and approved today, March 31.
This will make room for the Anti-LGBTQI Bill’s consideration.
“Join us and pray for us,” on Friday, the South Dayi member of parliament tweeted.
Prior to that, Bernard Ahiafor, a higher ranking member of the committee, gave Speaker of the House Alban Bagbin the assurance that no one would be able to stop the committee from working on the Anti-LGBTQI bill.
Mr. Ahiafo claimed that because he is a lawyer and a man of unquenchable spirit, he cannot be intimidated by anyone.
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In an interview with TV3’s Komla Kluste on March 29, he stated that the committee is prepared to take the Bill’s second reading if it is scheduled by the Business Committee.
He said “I can speak for myself, I am a man with an indomitable spirit and I don’t think I can be intimidated in any manner whatsoever by anybody. I am a lawyer, I will look at the law, look at the constitution and look at what needs to be done.
“That is exactly what I am going to do without any fear or favor and so let me assure the Speaker that the committee is made up mostly of lawyers and they cannot be intimidated,
“What the committee is supposed to do, the Committee has done it, and our report is ready. If the Business Committee programmes it today, we can take the second reading of the anti-LGBTOI Bill today, if it is programmed tomorrow we can take the Bill tomorrow.”
