The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram in the Greater Accra Region, Sam Nettey George has assured Ghanaians that the anti-gay bill currently in Parliament woould be passed by the house.
The Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament is currently holding a public hearing on the bill as part of the process to get it passed.
The Legislator who is part of the group advocating for the passage of the bill in Parliament however maintains that it will certainly see the light of day.
“I am confident that the bill would be passed. We will pass to the glory of God, and we will pass it to shame the devil,” he assured on TV3.
There has been several agitations against the passage of the bill with some arguing that it is bias against members of the LBTQI+ community in Ghana.
Addressing the 3rd public hearing of the committee on the bill in Parliament on Thursday, February 17, Director of Key Watch Ghana, Shun Adjei, demanded clauses in the bill adverse to the rights of the intersex community taken out.
“The bill seeks to join us, intersex persons, to a group of sexual identity and orientation, and we are not happy about that because we are not sexual. We are a biological manifestation. Being intersex is a natural manifestation of the body’s diversities in the human species and not a sexuality or sexual orientation.
“This bill seeks to prohibit organizations such as ours from providing support of any kind. This bill seeks to force surgeries and treatment in intersex person infants and also enforce a culture of silence.”
But speaking on the New Day show on TV3 Monday, February 21 with Johnnie Hughes, Sam George said, “I am confident that the bill would be passed. We will pass to the glory of God, and we will pass it to shame the devil.”
