Before the house adjourns for the joyous holidays, Speaker of the House Alban Bagbin has promised that the bill on the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values will be passed.

After the First Deputy Speaker rejected a request for the bill to be taken to the consideration stage, the sponsors of the anti-gay bill accused the majority in Parliament on Wednesday of undermining the bill’s passage.

Samuel Nartey George, a member of parliament for Ningo-Prampram and one of the bill’s supporters, claimed that the Majority Caucus is slow-moving and impeding the procedures required to pass the legislation.

He continued by saying that the next tactic used by the bill’s supporters would be to publicly identify and publicly humiliate the Majority MPs who have supposedly been swayed by those who have an interest in seeing the nation’s LGBT community flourish.

The accusations have since been refuted by the Majority Caucus.

In addition to rejecting the accusation of sabotage, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, the head of the Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, stated that the Ningo-Prampram MP is aware of the problems that are delaying the bill’s passage.

In response to the events in Parliament, the Speaker declared that the bill would be introduced before the House adjourns for the holidays of Christmas and New Year.

“I know that nobody in this House is opposed to the bill, and I know the bill will see the light of day before we rise because the people of Ghana are expecting us to pass the bill before we go on recess. Failure to do so will have serious consequences on members as they want to advance in their political careers.”