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Parliament is expected to debate the bill on the Promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values also known as the anti-LGBT bill this week.
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu last Friday clarified that the House could not undertake the second reading of the bill last week as directed by the Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin due to the absence of the Chairman and Ranking Member on the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee.
The majority leader had given this explanation upon a question posed to him as to why the memorandum on the business statement for the fifth-week end Friday July 7th, 2023, did not capture the bill for debate.
The question was asked by Hon Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah MP for Ho West who is part of the Eight members of Ghana’s Parliament who jointly submitted the private bill to push for the criminalization of LGBTQI+ activities in the country.
The bill seeks to proscribe LGBTQ+ and related activities, proscribe propaganda of, advocacy for, or promotion of LGBT and related activities; provide for the protection of and support for children, and persons who are victims or accused of LGBT and related activities.
The MPs were scheduled to deliberate on the matter on June 27, but the House was empty as the majority of the MPs from both sides of the political divide were in Assin North for the by-election.
We had it last week, but we couldn’t make any progress because the chairman and the ranking member had traveled out. We hope that we will make some progress within this week. When the Speaker and the ranking member come, we will put our heads together and locate the bill,” Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu said.
Story by Mary Quartey -Parliamentary Correspondent
