Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has said that House could not hold the second reading of the Bill on Promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values, also known as the Anti-LGBT bill, this week, due to the absence of the Chairman and Ranking Member on Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee.
The Chairman of the Committee, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, and the Ranking Member of the Committee, Bernard Ahiafor, were both unable to attend the bill’s reading.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, directed the Business Committee last week to submit the Anti-Gay bill for debate this week, but the House was unable to do so despite the fact that the motion appeared on the order page on Thursday and Friday.
Proponent of the bill, Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzra demanded answers for the delay of work on the bill.
“The Bill, which was advertised yesterday and today, has not made it to the Business Statement.” The Motion by the eight private members on the Promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values was advertised yesterday and today, but it was not accepted.”
“It has been advertised for two days and nothing has appeared on the Business Statement, so I want to know what the Business Committee is doing about it.”
