Bearing the cultural values of Ghana in mind, the Speaker of Parliament, the Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, says “frankly, the argument to legalize LGBT was a non-starter in the first place.”
The Speaker has professed Parliament’s resolve to ensure President Akufo-Addo assents to the Anti-Gay bill passed by the House Wednesday, February 28, 2024.
He says the President, signing to the bill, will end the brouhaha surrounding it, together with its associated pressures from external forces that have already truncated the nation’s identity through colonialism and slave trade.
“We shall ensure that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo assents to the bill and bring closure to this matter,” he says.
In a Facebook post Thursday, February 29, the Speaker said the current generation has a mandate to protect the culture of Africans and work towards restoring the portions that have been lost to colonialism and slave trade.
He believes the passage of the bill is a huge step towards the the protection of the values that define the Ghanaian society.
“Africans have lost too much of our values to slave trade and colonialism already. This generation has a divine mandate to preserve the remnants of our cultures and work toward restoring the lost portions,” he wrote on his Facebook.
The Speaker in the post appreciated the Legislature for its commitment towards the passage of bill having gone through all the stages needed to pass it.
“I thank the Members of the Parliament of Ghana for upholding the wishes of the people of Ghana to protect the sanity of our marriage and family values,” he said.
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