The Minority in Parliament has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of using the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, known as an anti-LGBTQI campaign, just for political power.
The Minority noted that the NDC has abandoned the anti-LGBTQ bill after winning power.
Addressing a press conference in Parliament on Monday January 26, the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, said that the NDC has been exploring running away from the anti-LGBTQI law.
He said, “We hear His Excellency the President play on words to say that the government was engaging in wider consultation to see how the law could be formulated in a better way. Really?
Was it not the same law they said was okay to be passed? When the Mighty Minority members decided through private members bill to now pin them to their own principles, suddenly after all the processes has been followed, and approval given and the motion was on the order paper, the NDC through its Majority leader found a way of using procedure to claim that there was no such approval by the Speaker and tried to scapegoat the Clerk of Parliament.
We hold the view that the NDC used the Anti-LGBTQ law only for power and now that they are facing the reality, they want to find a way of running away from it. We will insist that they act by their own principle,” he said.
NDC has suddenly gone quiet on the anti-LGBTQ bill. We hear the President playing on words. They used it only for power but now running away from it when the reality dawned on them.
Source:Fiilafmonline/3News
