Akwatia MP Bernard Bediako has expressed confidence that President John Dramani Mahama will assent to the Human Rights and Household Values Invoice 2025, even when there’s a new authorized problem to the invoice.
The controversial invoice, broadly often called an anti-LGBTQ+ invoice, was handed by Congress on Friday, Could twenty ninth.
It goals to criminalize LGBTQ+ actions in Ghana and has launched amendments that might exempt sure people and teams from sanctions beneath its provisions. The newly handed legislative doc is awaiting presidential assent.
“He (President Mahama) is just not going to play video games with the folks of Ghana. Even when Senior (Manhyia South MP, Nana Agyi Baffour Awah) decides to go to court docket, he is not going to achieve this. I do know that the very day President Mahama receives this, he’ll conform to this,” the lawmaker mentioned.
In keeping with him, the passage of the invoice was a possibility for President Mahama to realize the success that former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was unable to realize. “For me, we now have come a great distance. That is now a check case for President Mahama. President Mahama is anticipated to have the ability to do what former President Akufo-Addo couldn’t do. He has assured us.”
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“Let me put it on the document that we will be tweaking it, and that is what is going on to occur. So we will have an excellent draft earlier than we ship it to the president,” he added.
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The invoice, formally named the “Respectable Human Sexual Rights and Promotion of Ghanaian Household Values Invoice,” was once more tabled for second studying within the Home of Representatives on Thursday, marking the newest stage in its lengthy and contentious path by means of Parliament.
The invoice, initially launched in June 2021 by a cross-party group of MPs led by Ningo Prampram MP Sam George, goals to criminalize same-sex sexual relations, LGBTQ advocacy, funding and associated actions.
The invoice obtained its first studying in August 2021 and was then referred to Parliament’s Structure, Authorized Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs Committee for scrutiny.
In 2021-2022, the Fee held a variety of public hearings involving spiritual teams, conventional authorities, authorized specialists, civil society organizations, and human rights organizations.
The listening to sparked widespread public debate, with supporters saying the invoice was essential to guard Ghana’s tradition and household values, whereas opponents mentioned it was unconstitutional and discriminatory.
