Anti-LGBTQ Bill: We are making it a crime for anybody to attack any known gay person- Mr. Rockson Dafeamekpor
Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor has dismissed notions describing the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill as a hate bill.
According to Mr Rockson Dafeamekpor, he said, such submissions by some individuals opposing the Anti-LGBTQ Bill hold no water as the bill in question has made provision for members of the LGBTQ community to be protected by the security services should they be threatened or harmed.
While interacting with Samson Lardy Anyenini on Newsfile on Saturday, the South Dayi MP added that if passed into law, threats and any form of attack against LGBTQ persons in the country will be criminalised.
“If you read clause 22 of the bill, we are actually making it a crime for anybody to attack as it were, any known gay person who may have been discovered. The bill is saying when a person is identified to be a gay or lesbian and is attacked, the person (attac
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