Members of Parliament arrive in London to discuss the anti-LGBT bill.
Four members of Ghana's parliament have arrived in London to begin negotiations with the UK Parliament on the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021. (Anti-LGBT bill).
Members of Parliament (MPs) from the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee are leading the delegation to London, which is chaired by the committee's chairman, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi.
On Monday, June 13, 2022, the four-member delegation will begin discussions with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) on the anti-gay measure now before Parliament.
This follows Anyimadu-announcement Antwi's that the UK Parliament has issued an invitation to members of Ghana's Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee to examine the anti-gay bill presently before it.
In an interview with Accra-based TV3, Anyimadu-Antwi said that he and four other members of the committee will leave the nation on Sunday, June 12 for 'this critical' meeting.
He went on to say that the meeting will begin on Monday and run for three days before they returned to the nation on Wednesday. "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 take off on Sunday; we were scheduled to travel today, but due to airline arrangements, we'll go on Sunday," he stated on Saturday, June 11. "We go into the conference Monday morning, and by Wednesday, we'll be done."
Sam Nartey George of Ningo Prampram and eight other MPs are now proposing an Anti-LGBTQI Bill on the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights, which prohibits the LGBTQ+ population from engaging in certain activities. If the bill is approved, people of the same sex who engage in sexual behavior might face up to ten years in prison.