Parliament’s Committee to meet CPA, discuss anti-gay Bill
The CPA was founded as the Empire Parliamentary Association in 1911. Its first branches were Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, the latter branch administering the Association as a whole.
A four-member delegation of Parliament’s Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee chaired by Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi will today, June 13, 2022, meet and begin their 3-days meeting and discussion with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association(CPA).
The team, which is led by the Committee’s chairman, left Ghana for London on Sunday, June 12, 2022.
In an interview with Daily Graphic, Mr. Anyimadu noted that the invitation was extended to the committee through the Speaker of Parliament.
He added that the meeting, which will begin from today, June 13 to Wednesday, June 15, will discuss other issues.
Additionally, Mr. Anyimadu indicated that contrary to publications out there, the committee was rather invited by the CPA, not the British Parliament.
He said that Ghanaian Parliamentarians are members of the CPA which is based in the United Kingdom and refuted the claims among the public that Ghana’s Parliament was subservient to the British Parliament.
The CPA was founded as the Empire Parliamentary Association in 1911. Its first branches were Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, the latter branch administering the Association as a whole. In 1948 the Association changed its name to the current Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and invited all branches to participate in the organization's administration.
Moreover, Mr. Anyimadu insisted that the Anti-gay bill had not been delayed but the Committee was on course and added that it received about eight memoranda that it ought to consider.
Background
The anti-gay bill(The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021) is being championed by MP for Ningo Prampram, Sam George, and others, which seeks to criminalize LGBTQ+ relationships and Associations, advocacy, and support for gay activities. has been greeted with wide views.
There was a near fight in the Parliament of Ghana last week when members of the Minority caucus accused the chairman of the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of deliberately delaying the passage of the Bill into Law.
This assertion was however vehemently denied by the Chairman and his colleagues on the Majority side.
