When do you want to receive the anti-LGBTQ bill – Parliament asks Akufo-Addo

The Clerk to Parliament, Cyril Ansah in a reply to President Akufo-Addo’s letter on the transmission of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill 2024. Mr. Cyril Ansah asked the Secretary to the President, Nana Bediatuo Asante when to tell when Parliament can submit the bill for presidential assent.

In the Clerk’s letter dated April 10, 2024, Mr Cyril Ansah acknowledged receipt of the letter and its content. He thus wants to on the most date suitable he can transmit the bill on behalf of Parliament.

“I have taken note of the contents of the letter, particularly the text in the last paragraph, which states that ‘In the circumstances, you are kindly requested to cease and desist from transmitting the Bill to the President until matters before the Supreme Court are resolved’.”

“Accordingly, I await an indication in writing from your Office on when to present the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2024 to His Excellency the President for his consideration, pursuant to article 106(7) of the Constitution, 1992,” the letter read in parts.