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Former President John Dramani Mahama has said that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has indicated to the Parliament of Ghana that he would not assent to the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 (anti-LGBT bill) even if the house approves it.
Mahama claims that because the anti-LGBT bill is a private members bill and is presently in the house’s deliberation stage, the government objects to the bill being enacted at a cost to it.
“The bill in parliament has not been approved yet but it seems the government has indicated that even if it is passed the president would not assent to it.
“… what the attorney general is saying is that you can pass a bill by a private member motion but it must not bring a cost to the government. So, based on that technicality, the president has signalled that if the bill comes to him, he would not sign it,” Mahama, the flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) said at an engagement with religious leaders on January 31, 2024.
The former president urged the executive and the legislature to resolve the impasse on the bail so that it can be passed.
“So, I think parliament and the executive should discuss this. They should go through the bill and look at the places it puts a charge on the government so they can take that part out of the bill out for it to make a way for the president to be happy to sign it.”
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