Sam Nartey Geroge, a member of parliament for Ningo-Prampram and the bill's sponsor, has suggested that the Promotion of Appropriate Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021—commonly known as the Anti-LGBTQ+ bill—will be brought before the house in March 2023.
This comes after the Attorney General met with the bill's committee on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, and said he was fine with the legislation.
I can see that there is now a light at the end of the tunnel, he stated in an interview. The light at the end of the tunnel has arrived. And by the end of March or before this house rises, we'll be presenting that report and setting it before the house for discussions on the floor.
So keep an eye on this spot.
"Our situation is favourable. And we anticipate having your full support in order to pass this historic legislation, which will be the first of its kind. Such assertion was made by the Attorney General for the first time on the African continent yesterday. A law prohibiting same-sex unions is in Nigeria. Just that. It lacks all the other items on our bill. We're thrilled about this, Sam George continued.
He said that the issues brought up by the Attorney General had been resolved.
"The Attorney General brings up some important questions regarding costs and a few human rights problems.
Yesterday, we pointed out to him that most of the concerns he was bringing had previously been addressed. I think that the intersex problem will come up when the bill is introduced, and I can offer you an example of a compromise that was made earlier in the committee. You can see from reading the original bill that while we criminalised some forms of homosexuality, we also declared in our bill that this was thought to be a biological anomaly.
The Attorney General concurred with the committee's opinion that if intersex was not criminalised and was recognised in the original statute as a biological aberration, then legal action should be taken.
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