Member of Parliament for Afigya Kwabre North, Collins Adomako-Mensah, has challenged the Majority in Parliament to expedite the passage of the controversial Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill popularly called Anti-LGBTQ+ bill using a certificate of urgency.

Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana on April 8, 2026, Adomako-Mensah said the parliamentary mechanism allows legislation to be passed within 24 hours.

“They’ve done it many times before. If they were serious about this bill, they would have pushed it through long ago. The fact that they haven’t, indicates their actual plans regarding the legislation,” he said, referring to NDC members in Parliament.

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The Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, first introduced in 2021, seeks to criminalise the promotion, advocacy, and funding of LGBTQ+ activities in Ghana, in addition to reinforcing existing legal restrictions on same-sex relationship.

The bill was passed by Parliament in 2024 but was not assented to by the then President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, pending the outcome of legal challenges before the Supreme Court questioning its constitutionality.

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