A bill that passed unanimously in 2024 has been transformed beyond recognition, says NPP.
When Ghana’s 8th Parliament passed the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill in 2024, it did so with unprecedented unanimity, both the NPP and NDC voting together, reflecting what legislators described as the moral and cultural consensus of the Ghanaian people. Two years later, that consensus has been systematically unpicked through 31 amendments, and the NPP is demanding answers.
The NPP Minority Caucus, in a statement issued on June 4, 2026, has laid bare what it describes as a deliberate and calculated effort by the now-governing NDC to dilute the Bill beyond its original intent β doing in Parliament what they publicly condemned when in opposition.
The Minority’s statement points out a damning contradiction: it was the NDC, while sitting on the opposition benches of the 8th Parliament, that most fiercely resisted any amendments to the Bill. They argued that any dilution would undermine its moral authority and betray the values of Ghanaian families. The same party has now introduced thirty-one changes.
While the specific content of each amendment has not been detailed in the Minority’s public statement, the sheer number, 31, signals a comprehensive rewrite rather than minor technical adjustments. The NPP is treating this as confirmation that the NDC’s earlier support for the Bill was never principled but purely electoral.
“The NDC’s unanimous vote in support of the 2024 Bill was therefore not an act of goodwill but a calculated political statement of convenience and deceit,” the Minority Caucus stated bluntly.
Political analysts watching the situation say the number of amendments is significant. Any single amendment to a legislation of this nature requires justification rooted in constitutional or legal necessity. Thirty-one amendments, critics argue, suggest a wholesale ideological retreat rather than legislative refinement.
The NPP is insisting that the original Bill, unamended, must be the one that proceeds to presidential assent. Any deviation, they say, is a betrayal not just of the NPP but of every Ghanaian who voted for the NDC on the promise that the Bill would become law without compromise.