Sam George, the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, has assured Ghanaians that the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, commonly referred to as the Anti-LGBTQI bill, will be processed “expeditiously” by Parliament.
According to Sam George, Parliament will work expeditiously and will be forwarded to President John Mahama for him to assent to the bill.
Sam George further rejected claims that he had abandoned the bill after his elevation to a ministerial role under the Mahama administration.
Speaking during an event, Sam George stated, “There is no bill before President Mahama today”
He further admitted, “The calls from very respectable groups like the Catholic Bishops Conference are very well placed because of how sensitive and important this is”.
Sam George further dismissed allegations levelled agains him, saying, “I have heard people who have said Sam George and his colleague sponsors have abandoned — we’ve run away because I’ve been appointed minister,” he said. “The process is the process.”
“As for the clauses, we have gone through them, we’ve masticated them, and we will go through them expeditiously. The body of the law remains the same,” he said.
“I believe that Parliament has a responsibility to grant the Chief Imam his wish and grant the Catholic Bishops their wish,” he added.
Meanwhile, Alban Bagbin, the Speaker of parliament, has urged Ghanaians not to listen to persons who do not know what is happening in parliament regarding the anti-LGBTQ+ bill currently before parliament.
According to Speaker Bagbin, the bill has already gone through the necessary processes in Parliament and expressed confidence that it will be passed when the House reconvenes.
Speaking at an event, Alban Bagbin disclosed, “I’m sure one of the reasons we punished him and his party is one of these, so we started, and we processed it, it has gone through all the stages, and the next meeting of Parliament will get us asking to pass that bill into law”.
“So, don’t listen to people who don’t know what is in Parliament. Please, I repeat, don’t listen to people who don’t know what is in Parliament,” he cautioned.
“They can play that kind of bad politics. That is not what we are here for. We are different from those practising it. Our cultures, values, and principles are different. They know the effect and what it is doing to them. We resist it today; we will not be colonised again. That is gone, it’s history,” he added.
Speaker Babgin further disclosed that the president gave him his assurance that he will sign the anti-LGBTQ+ bill into law once the House passes it.
He disclosed, “… His Excellency the President assured me that when we pass the bill, and it comes to me, he has stated it before, he was going to ascend it. So, please, leave the rumour mongers”.
“… A number of Members of Parliament who believe in it decided to promote it in Parliament, and you know the things I said before, I’m not a man of words; I’m a man of action, and that is how we got it passed in Parliament, but for some reason, the [former] president did not assent to it. That one is his own bandana, not mine,” he said.
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Hon. Sam George, one of the main sponsors of the anti-LGBTQ bill, has called on the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee to expedite their inquiry to fast-track the passage of the bill.
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