Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee in Parliament has denied claims by Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Hon. Samuel Nartey George that the Majority in Parliament is fighting the Promotion of the anti-gay bill.
He said leadership of Parliament has not drawn his attention that the committee should go ahead and do consideration on this bill.
“The bill has been here, and we have not prosecuted it because the religious bodies came to the Speaker and it got to a point that we were looking at the rehabilitation of people that will fall as victims of the LGBTQ+ and the Speaker suggested that we meet with the religious bodies to see how best we can incorporate that into the bill and our initial response was that it may not be sustainable, but I discussed it with the Ranking Member, who said that we have to do one workshop and iron out quizzes and last week, I went to the Speaker’s office, and he asked me on this bill and I told him that we need to do something on this bill before we can go ahead and do it or prosecute it.
“Leadership has not drawn my attention that we should go ahead and do consideration on this bill and at any rate, this is not the only bill at the consideration stage. The Intestate Succession Bill has also been there and nobody thinks of prosecuting it, and then we have the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill on page 24 and when the Speaker called me. If we start today, there is no way we can finish these amendments before this meeting ends, so why should I start it?” He told journalists while responding to Sam George who is one of the sponsors of the Anti-Gay Bill who had indicated that the leadership of the Majority in Parliament reached out to sponsors of the bill to step it down.
