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Speaker, Attorney General Dragged To Court Over Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill And Its Fiscal Impact

Speaker, Attorney General Dragged To Court Over Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill And Its Fiscal Impact

A private citizen, Paul Boama Sefa, has dragged the Speaker of Parliament and the Attorney General to the High Court. He is alleging that the two have breached portions of Ghana’s constitution regarding how the legislative body handled the Human Rights and Family Values Bill, 2021. He says despite the law having financial implications for the consolidated fund, it was not handed to parliament with a fiscal impact analysis document. Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee has already urged the House to pass the bill into law. But it appears this may suffer some setbacks. The individual behind this…
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