Member of Parliament for Bawku Central and a member of the constitutional, legal and parliamentary affairs committee of Parliament Hon. Mahama Ayariga has stated that there are several issues with LBTQ+ and that the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 needs to be looked at again.
His reaction comes after a group of 18 prominent Ghanaian citizens rejected the bill, saying it constitutes an “impermissible invasion of the inviolability and human dignity” of the LGBTQI community.
Ayariga, who called into The Asaase Breakfast Show to express his views on the topic, said portions of the anti-gay bill should be revised.
“There are several issues that need to be flagged. Academic freedom, the professors have raised it,” the MP for Bawku Central said.
Ayariga added: “It is so fundamental that our constitution has gone out of its way to guarantee the set up for academic freedom, and that is one issue that we need to respond to and respond to properly as a committee.
“People have risen right to healthcare and how a bill like that will go a long way to undermine access to healthcare by people in the gay and lesbian community”, he said.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Joseph Asare
