This week, the anti-LGBT measure, also called the Promotion of Proper Sexual Human Rights and Ghanaian Family Values bill, is expected to be discussed in parliament.

Last Friday, the Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, made it clear that the absence of the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee prevented the House from conducting the second reading of the bill as ordered by Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, last week.

The bill aims to outlaw LGBTQ+ and associated acts, as well as any propaganda, advocacy, or promotion of LGBT and related activities. It also aims to protect and support children, as well as anyone who have been wrongly accused or victimized by LGBT or related activities.

On June 27, when the MPs were supposed to debate the issue, the House was empty because the majority of MPs from both the majority and minority parties were in Assin.