President John Dramani Mahama has expressed commitment to assent to the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, popularly known as anti-gay bill, if passed by the ninth Parliament.
He insisted that that will embody the national belief.
President Mahama made this commitment on Tuesday, November 18 when leadership of the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) called on him at the Jubilee House.
“I believe that we have no questions or equivocations about what we believe,” he remarked. “I believe that we are completely aligned with the Christian Council in terms of your belief.”
The matter came up in the ninth Parliament with the Majority Leader, Mahama Ayariga, insisting that that bill has already been passed.
However, members in the Minority demanded that it was re-passed to get the sitting president to assent to it.
Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin ruled that the Bill be relaid for proper passage by the legislature.
“We agree with the Speaker to relay the bill and let Parliament debate it and if there are any amendments or adjustments that need to be made, if the people’s representatives in Parliament endorse the bill, vote on it, and pass it, and it comes to me as president, I will sign it,” President Mahama assured the Christian leaders.
This will come in sharp contrast to the posture of his predecessor, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who failed to assent to the Bill when it was passed by the eighth Parliament.
He had written to the Clerk of Parliament not to transmit the passed bill to him due to some cases at the Supreme Court.
Some attributed the abysmal loss of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2024 elections to the position of then President Nana Akufo-Addo.