Setback for Ghana’s ‘worst anti-LGBTQ bill ever’

 Homophobes failed to analyze financial impacts of their bill

 Godfred Yeboah Dame (Photo courtesy of Modern Ghana)

Godfred Yeboah Dame, Ghana’s attorney-general and minister of justice, has declared that the harsh anti-LGBTQ bill currently in Parliament would impose costs on the state, so he will advise the President not to assent to it.

“I will advise the President to return the bill to Parliament,” he said.

The Constitution demands that a private member’s bill can’t impose cost on the state or taxpayers, the Attorney General stated, as reported by Joy 99.7 and the LGBTQ rights group Rightify Ghana.

The Attorney General did not go so far as to explain that the costs of prisoners in Ghana would soar if homophobic legislators succeed in passing the law that would imprison thousands of LGBTQ Ghanaians, human rights advocates and allies. Instead, he merely warned of the private member’s bill’s unaddressed financial ramifications.

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76crimes 14-05-2023 Setback for Ghana’s ‘worst anti-LGBTQ bill ever’