President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said he would await the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on the constitutionality of the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill popularly called the anti-gay bill recently passed by Parliament before he takes any action to assent to the bill or otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President said this at the New Year greetings event with members of the Diplomatic Corps at Peduase, where he disclosed a Ghanaian citizen is challenging the anti-gay bill in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Assuring the international community of Ghana\u2019s commitment to upholding its Human Rights record, he said \u201cI am aware that last week\u2019s bi-partisan passage by Parliament of the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, on a Private Member\u2019s motion, has raised considerable anxieties in certain quarters of the diplomatic community and amongst some friends of Ghana that she may be turning her back on her, hitherto, enviable, longstanding record on human rights observance and attachment to the rule of law. I want to assure you that no such back-sliding will be contemplated or occasioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think it will serve little purpose to go, at this stage, into the details of the origin of this proposed law, which is yet to reach my desk. But, suffice it to say that I have learnt that today, a challenge has been mounted at the Supreme Court by a concerned citizen to the constitutionality of the proposed legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n