{"id":11835,"date":"2023-07-04T17:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/2023\/07\/04\/anti-gay-bill-delay-sponsors-urge-parliament-to-expedite-action-to-passage\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T17:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T17:51:05","slug":"anti-gay-bill-delay-sponsors-urge-parliament-to-expedite-action-to-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=11835","title":{"rendered":"ANTI-GAY BILL DELAY: Sponsors urge Parliament to expedite Action to passage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Parliament has penciled down the Anti-Gay Bill to be taken Tomorrow and the sponsors are urging the House to speed up the process in the passage of<\/strong> <strong>same<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to <em><strong>EXPRESSNEWSGHANA<\/strong><\/em>, Hon Emmanuel Kwesi Bedzrah, a member of the sponsors of the Bill  said the delay in the passage of the Bill has occasioned the public not to take Parliament seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He contended that the Bill was essential to the generality of Ghanaians and expected the House to pass it, but the House has gone mute on it and the reason is best known to the leadership of the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"393\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/FB_IMG_1688492100965.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/FB_IMG_1688492100965.jpg 393w, https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/FB_IMG_1688492100965-250x189.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Hon Bedzrah<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He urged the House to expedite action on the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hon Bedzrah also allayed the fears  and stressed that the Bill will cure a lot of public acts including forbidding mob attacks on suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He expressed confidence that the bill will be  passed into law before parliament goes on recess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: expressnewsghana.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament has penciled down the Anti-Gay Bill to be taken Tomorrow and the sponsors are urging the House to speed up the process in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2963],"class_list":["post-11835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bedzrah-anti-lgbtq"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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