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The Ghanaian Supreme Court denied a request to halt the Ghanaian Parliament from passing the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021, also known as the anti-LGBTQ+ bill.
The application, which was made by Dr. Amanda Odoi, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD), University of Cape Coast (UCC), was unanimously rejected by a nine-member Supreme Court panel chaired by Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo.
The petitioner, according to the court, did not provide sufficient justification for it to force parliament to halt its efforts to approve the anti-gay bill.
The Court also stated that the academic withdrew his claim of contempt against Alban Bagbin, Speaker of Parliament.
One of the two Ghanaians who sued Bagbin in the Supreme Court to prevent the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 from being passed by parliament is Dr. Amanda Odoi.
The other individual is farmer Paul Boama Sefa.
The proposal to promote appropriate human sexual rights and the Ghanaian Family Values law (an anti-LGBTQI bill) was approved by the Constitutional, Legal and Parliament Committee in the meantime.
This came after the bill’s second reading on Wednesday, July 5, 2023.
The law is currently in the deliberation stage, when the house is anticipated to read it word-for-word and make the necessary changes suggested by the Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
