Members of Parliament's Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee have been invited to a three-day meeting in the United Kingdom by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
The seminar is planned to cover a wide range of human rights concerns, including the contentious Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill (Anti-LGBTQ bill).
The meeting will begin on Monday, June 13 and finish on Wednesday, June 15, according to Committee Chairperson Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi.
He claims that four members of the Committee will be present at that key meeting.
"The Speaker received the invitation and referred it to the Committee. This critical meeting will be attended by four members of the Committee, including myself and the Ranking Member.
"We're leaving on Sunday." We were intended to leave today [June 11], but due to travel delays, we will leave on Sunday [June 12]. So, on Monday morning, we come into the meeting, and by Wednesday, we're done," he told TV3 in Accra.
However, the committee chairman told JoyNews earlier today that unforeseen circumstances have forced them to reschedule the meeting until next week because the invitees are now ill.
Sam Nartey George, a Member of Parliament (MP) from Ningo-Prampram, and eight other MPs are now proposing a Bill that outlaws gay conduct in the country.
If the Bill is enacted in its current form, anyone who practice same-sex marriage might face up to ten years in prison. The Chair of the Committee has been accused by the Minority in Parliament of purposefully delaying the Bill's passage, although Mr Anyimadu-Antwi has angrily denied such accusations.
He stated that the Committee has finished the public hearing and will now analyze the Bill clause by clause before submitting its report to the plenary.
On Joy FM's Top Story on Wednesday, he stated the Minority cannot hold him responsible for completing his job properly.
"I am dissatisfied with the statements spoken by Honourable Muntaka. He was the Chairman of the Health Committee, and no one interfered with his work when a bill was referred to him... We had finished the public hearing and were ready to go on.
"Now we'll wrap up the in-camera session and move on to clause-by-clause review of the Bill, following which we'll provide our report to the plenary... He couldn't fault me for performing my job properly, he couldn't criticize me," he explained.
a billboard that is pro-LGBTQ
On Monday, supporters of an anti-LGBT+ bill in Parliament gave the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, a 24-hour deadline to remove billboards promoting gay activity around the city.
The massive billboards were put on key highways around the country in honor of LGBT pride month, which takes place every June.
On the Accra-Tema highway, one of these billboards was later dismantled.
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