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Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>One of the sponsors of the anti-gay bill, Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampam, Samuel Nartey George, has accused the Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin of seeking to destroy the bill. <\/b><\/p>\n

This was after Mr Afenyo-Markin succeeded in blocking the third reading of the Anti-LGBTQ bill.<\/p>\n

But for his intervention, the controversial bill would have been passed.<\/p>\n

He contended that although he is not against the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values bill, he is opposed to the provision that would lead to the imprisonment of individuals accused of engaging in or promoting LGBTQ activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe essence of this motion is to afford this House the opportunity to thoroughly consider amendments that are proposed in the bill with the view of substituting community service for incarceration,\u201d Afenyo-Markin explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue before us is behavioral, and it is my humble view that in dealing with behavioural matters, incarceration is not the solution. It makes the matter worse\u201d the Efutu MP pointed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo jail a person for his\/her sexuality will not be the solution in maintaining our Ghanaian family values and ensuring proper human sexual rights,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

But Sam Nartey George described Afenyo-Markin\u2019s contention as baseless.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Thursday, February 15, he said \u201cDeputy Majority Leader, his comments today are not new to the house. Last week Wednesday he spent about an hour and 15 minutes making the same submission, last week Thursday he did about another house on the same subject, last week Wednesday when he made his submission there was a vote of of the house and his motion was defeated.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast week Thursday his motion was defeated. Today when he made his submission against the amendment it was defeated, It is a journey of no value and of no substance in the bill because what he is seeking to do is to destroy the essence of the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attempt to take away the custodial sentencing from this bill and replace it with community service is not just strange by the Deputy Majority Leader but it is actually an attempt to kill the bill. I am happy that in the three instances, he has been raising the issue, he has been standing alone as the house collectively, both the majority and the minority voted against him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Ghana. One of the sponsors of the anti-gay bill, Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampam, Samuel Nartey George, has accused the Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin of seeking to destroy the bill. This was after Mr Afenyo-Markin succeeded in blocking the third reading of the Anti-LGBTQ bill. 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