Samuel Nartey George, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo Prampram, says it would be politically suicidal for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo not to sign the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill after Parliament passes it.
According to the MP, if the President does not assent to the bill, also known as the Promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, two-thirds of members of Parliament must vote in favour of the bill in order for it to become law.
Samuel George, speaking on Eyewitness News, stated that failure to approve the bill would be an indictment on the government.
“The President will be requested by Parliament to sign the bill into law. It will be politically suicidal, and it will mark the sound of a dead mill on his abysmal government if he said he was not going to sign that bill into law. That will be the beginning of the collapse of his government and his legacy. And so I don’t want to have that thought because I think that his advisers and handlers will advise him accordingly,” the Ningo Prampram MP said.
During a joint press conference with US Vice President Kamala Harris at the Jubilee House on Monday, President Akufo-Addo revealed that his government intervened to modify the current anti-LGBTQ Bill.
Kamala Harris also attempted to dismiss Ghana’s efforts to pass an anti-LGBTQ bill.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, was outraged by the comments and called Akufo-Addo and Kamala Harris undemocratic.
“As the Vice President of the USA, Kamala Harris did yesterday, these things should not be tolerated, that is undemocratic. What is democracy? That someone should have to dictate to me what is good and what is bad? Unheard of, because we have decided to devalue ourselves and go begging? Come on, we have more than enough. God has created more than enough for every person, the Bill will be passed,” Bagbin added.
Source: citinewsroom.com
