Bill prohibit

The Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2022 is currently before Parliament at the consideration stage which is seeking to amend the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) to prohibit the practice by any person as a witch doctor or a witchfinder; to proscribe the declaration, accusation, naming or labeling of another person as a witch; and for related matters. The Bill also makes provision for the criminalization of witchcraft activities in Ghana but the Committee, as captured in its report however, wondered about the practicability of identifying and establishing witchcraft beliefs and witchcraft activities in law. In reacting to the concerns…