The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has said that President John Mahama has assured him of passing the anti-LGBTQ bill once the House passes it.
The Speaker said this at a ceremony on April 11.
“…the President assured me that when we pass the bill and it comes to him, he has stated it before, he was going to assent to it. So please, leave the rumour mongers,” he said.
He said, “Members of Parliament, who believe in it, decided to promote it in Parliament. And you know the things I said before. I’m not a man of words, I’m a man of action. That is how we got it passed in Parliament. But for some reason, the President did not assent to it. I’m sure one of the reasons why we punished him and his party is this one.”
He assured that, “we started and we processed it. It has gone through all the stages and the next meeting of Parliament we will pass that bill into law. So don’t listen to people who don’t know what is in Parliament. Please, I repeat, don’t listen to people who don’t know what is in Parliament.”
The Speaker underscored the fact that the gay and lesbian practices are foreign to Ghanaian culture and values.
“They can play that kind of bad politics. That is not what we are here for. We are different from those practicing it. Our cultures and values and principles are different. They know the effect and what it is doing to them. We resist it today, we will not be colonized again. That is gone. It’s history,” he stressed.
