Samuel Nartey George, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo Prampram, claims that if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo decides not to sign the Anti-LGBTQ+ Law after it is passed by Parliament, it will be politically suicide.
The MP claims that if the Promotion of Appropriate Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill does not receive the President’s approval, two-thirds of Parliamentarians must vote in favour of the bill in order for it to become law.
Samuel George stated on Eyewitness News that the government would be held accountable if the bill wasn’t passed.
“Parliament will ask the President to sign the bill into law. If he announced he wasn’t going to sign that bill into law, it would be politically suicide and would be the equivalent of the sound of a dead mill for his appalling government. That will be the beginning of his government and legacy falling apart. I don’t want to think that, because I believe that his handlers and advisers will counsel him appropriately, said Ningo Prampram MP.
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At a joint news conference he had on Monday at Jubilee House with US Vice President Kamala Harris, President Akufo-Addo revealed that his government had intervened to change the current anti-LGBTQ Law.
Kamala Harris also tried to belittle Ghana’s efforts to pass the anti-LGBTQ bill.
Incensed over the comments, the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin lambasted Akufo-Addo and Kamala Harris describing the comments as 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.
