Majority Chief Whip Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor has said Parliament could pass the reintroduced anti-LGBTQ bill within days once debate on the legislation begins this week.
Speaking on PM Express on May 26, 2026, the South Dayi MP revealed that the parliamentary committee handling the bill has completed its work and is ready to present its report to the House.
“The report will be laid on Thursday,” he stated.
According to Dafeamekpor, Parliament is prepared to fast-track the remaining stages of the legislative process once the committee report is officially presented.
“When it’s laid, we can take the report, debate it, that’s as part of the principles for second reading, and adopt it,” he explained.
“Once it’s adopted, we move into consideration. Consideration, we can even decide to do consideration on Friday, and pass.”
The Majority Chief Whip argued that lawmakers are not dealing with a completely new bill since Parliament had already approved an earlier version of the legislation.
“You see, the Ghanaian family values bill, we have already passed it,” he said.
“It was a certain president who decided not to sign, so the terms of the bill are essentially what Parliament had already passed.”
He maintained that Parliament intends to complete work on the bill quickly rather than reopen lengthy debates on issues lawmakers believe have already been addressed.
When asked whether the bill would be passed this year, Dafeamekpor insisted Parliament would conclude work on it within weeks.
“Yes, in a couple of weeks, not even months,” he said.
“We’ll pass it once we do the second reading on Thursday or Friday, and with consideration, we can pass it.”
He also defended the planned expedited process, saying Parliament should not be accused of abusing urgency procedures because members are already familiar with the contents of the bill.
“But when we do consideration expeditiously, let the NPP not shout that we are abusing the certificate of urgency,” he stated.
“It will be rapidly done, because we cannot be reenacting what we have already read,” he added.
The reintroduced anti-LGBTQ bill, formally known as the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, was first introduced in Parliament in 2021 by bipartisan lawmakers.
The proposed legislation seeks to prohibit LGBTQ activities, advocacy, funding and the promotion of non-traditional sexual orientations and gender identities in Ghana.
The bill sparked widespread national and international debate, with supporters arguing that it protects Ghanaian cultural and family values, while critics described it as discriminatory and unconstitutional.
Parliament passed the original bill in 2024, but former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo declined to assent to it before leaving office, citing pending legal and constitutional challenges before the Supreme Court.
