A principal sponsor of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025 (Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill) and Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, has strongly opposed calls for Parliament to reconsider the legislation, insisting that the House has completed its constitutional mandate and must now transmit the bill to the President for further action.
Speaking after addressing lawmakers, diplomats, and policy experts at the 4th African Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family Sovereignty and Values, held within the precincts of Parliament, Mr George argued that the Standing Orders of Parliament do not provide any legal basis for reopening debate on a bill after it has successfully passed its third reading.
“Everything that we do in this House, Parliament is a house of rules. Respectfully to Mr Speaker, it’s not a house of appeals. It’s a house of rules. And so if there’s no rule in the rule book that gives us room to do what he wants to do, I’m saying that there is still a room in there; the Presidency can come back to us,” he argued, shutting down the possibility of Parliament going in the direction requested by Speaker Bagbin.
Source: tolonradio.com
