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June 8, 2022
The Chairman of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi has defended the delay on work on the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021.
He asserts that the committee has never rested and assured that they would go through the process and ensure they pass a bill that would withstand the test of time, “we just cannot rush through this”.
According to him, there are several bills before the committee, and reiterated that when the referral was made after the first reading, the committee received about 187 memoranda.
The committee thereafter held public hearings in the last meeting.
He disclosed that the timetable of the committee is that after the public hearings come private hearing (in-camera) hearing. This, the committee has started doing already.
He assured that the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs is on course with its work on the Bill.
He was however unable to state categorically when the committee would complete discussions and submit to the House.
He appealed to his colleagues not to accede to pressures from outside. “Indeed when this bill was laid most members of the public thought that within three days this bill would be passed;
nobody new the number of memoranda that has come to the House and the processes that we are going through”.
Ghanamps.com