Ningo-Prampram Member of Parliament and sponsor of the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021, which is known as Anti-LGBTQ+, Sam Nartey Geroge, has indicated that the bill will be presented in front of the house in March 2023. .
This happened after the bill’s committee met with the Attorney General on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, after he indicated that he was okay with the bill.
He said in an interview he said; “I can see that we now have a light at the end of the tunnel. We have reached the end of the tunnel. And we will bring that report hopefully before the end of March or before this house comes up and put it before the house for floor debate. So watch this space .”
“We are in a good place. And we will expect you to give us all your support to pass this landmark bill, which will be the first. The African continent. Nigeria has a bill that bans same-sex marriage. That’s all. No stuff – other things that are on our bill. So we are excited about this,” added Sam George.
He said the concerns raised by the Attorney General have been addressed.
“The Attorney General raised some basic issues about costs and some human rights issues. We drew attention to it yesterday that most of the issues that were raised are issues that we have already dealt with. I believe that the Bill when explaining the example, and I can give one of the concessions that have been made earlier in the committee had to do with the problem of intersex. If you read the original bill, you will see that we criminalized some expressions of homosexuality, but stated in the Bill we intersects considered as a biological anomaly.
“The Attorney General agrees with the opinion of the committee, which we have met before that we do not criminalize intersex, and we recognize that the original bill is a biological anomaly, so we must eliminate the bill completely. . So that the bill focuses on the things that we criminalized, “he said in an interview.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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