The Minority Caucus in Parliament has issued a warning, stating that it will not put up with any more attempts to hold up the passage of the anti-gay bill, which is a bill that promotes appropriate human sexual rights and Ghanaian family values.
The bill’s deputy majority leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, filed a motion last week asking for a second consideration in advance of the bill’s third reading and possible passage. His amendment sought to substitute community service for incarceration.
As a result, the House was forced to proceed with amending roughly thirteen of the bill’s clauses today, Wednesday, February 21.
Afenyo-Markin was urged by Minority Chief Whip Governs Agbodza to finish any required consultations regarding his proposed amendments by Wednesday. He issued a warning, saying that after that point, the Minority would not stand for any actions thought to be holding up the process.
“We should also be clear in our minds that we will not unduly always find a reason to postpone the progress of this bill to another day. Because, as we said the other day, everything that he [Afenyo-Markin] has raised in his proposal, he took about an hour here speaking about it, but he keeps giving reasons why we cannot deal with it. So we are giving him ample time to do the consultation because there will be no more filibustering after Wednesday.”
