The Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, Alhassan Sulemana Tampuli, has proposed that the anti-LGBTQ+ bill should be passed in its current form.
The Bill, officially known as the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2021, the MP argues, had already gained public acceptance after being approved by the 8th Parliament.
According to him, since the Bill passed through all the requisite stages for approval and also accepted by the entire citizenry, it would not be prudent to waste much time on it in the 9th Parliament.
He explained that the only thing that needs to be changed is the name, which would have the first year of its introduction being changed to 2025.
Speaking at the stakeholder engagement on the anti-LGBTQ bill in Accra on Thursday, April 23, 2026, he stressed that the bill is fit for purpose.
“Apart from the date, so if you look at the bill, ‘Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025′, apart from the date, practically every provision has been retained. I want to also believe that when the Bill went to the Private Members’ bill committee, some discussions had taken place and as far as I’m concerned, we don’t have to do much to this bill.
“Everybody has accepted the content of this bill as it was passed and everyone in Ghana must accepts that this is the bill that is fit for purpose. So Mr. Chairman, I don’t think we should thinker with any provision in this bill as far as today’s sitting and subsequent sittings are concerned,” he explained.
His comments was in reaction to an earlier statement by the Chairman of the Committee, Shaibu Mahama, who in his opening remarks noted that former President Akufo-Addo’s refusal to sign the bill was a blessing in disguise for the committee to address potential provisions that could have infringed on the rights of people.
