Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill: it will take 15 wks to hear more than 150 memoranda – Afenyo-Markin

Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, has projected that it will take the parliamentary committee that is in charge of the Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill 15 weeks, at least, to hear more than150 memoranda that have so far been presented as part of the move to pass the bill.
He made the calculation having in mind the possibility of Parliament receiving more memoranda apart from the 150 already received.
Mr. Afenyo-Markin, who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu in the Central Region, explained that each week, the committee had decided to consider 10 of the memoranda that bring the calculation to fifteen weeks.
His comments come after his colleague MP for Banda, Ahmed Ibrahim, had called on the House to carry along the nation as efforts were being made to pass the bill.
Speaking on the floor of the House Mr. Afenyo-Markin said on the issue of the LGBTQI+ bill, the committee had received 150 memoranda and was well informed of steps they had taken so far.
“The committee has met and programmed to hear them weekly and from next week they are starting, if Ibrahim Ahmed wants us to carry the nation along then per my calculation, if they are doing weekly we do not know whether any more memoranda will come then it means we are looking at 15 weeks, every week they are looking at 10, that is 150 and they want to look at 10 a week.
“It is important all those who have brought memoranda are heard, it is after that they will now prepare their report and then come and we make progress,” Mr. Afenyo-Markin added.
The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill was laid in the House on August 2 and read for the first time and reading for the first time, a clerk in the legislative assembly stated that the Bill prescribes lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+)and other related activities, propaganda, advocacy and promotion for same.
It also supports protection for children and persons who are victims or accused of homosexuality.
Second Deputy Speaker Andrew Asiamah Amoako referred the Bill to the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Committee for consideration. -3news.com