Mahama is ready to sign anti-LGBTQ bill into law — Majority Leader

The Majority Leader in Parliament and MP for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has stated that President John Dramani Mahama’s administration is ready to sign the anti-LGBTQ bill into law once it is passed by Parliament.

The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2025, was recently reintroduced before the House by a group of bipartisan MPs after it failed to receive presidential assent in the previous administration due to legal challenges.

However, the bill was later withdrawn from the order paper following confusion about whether Parliament should forward the old version to the President or begin a new process.

Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday, October 28, Mr. Ayariga clarified that the withdrawal was to allow the Speaker to give direction on the proper legislative procedure to follow.

He also assured that the Mahama-led government is fully committed to the bill’s passage and subsequent assent.

“I want to place on record that the government of President John Dramani Mahama and the NDC are very, very ready to take this bill. We are ready to assent to it. We are ready to take it in this House,” Mr. Ayariga said.

He explained that the House is only waiting for guidance from Speaker Alban Bagbin to determine whether the bill should be treated as already passed or reintroduced and taken through all stages of consideration again.

“We are waiting for you to come and give some direction so that we will know how to proceed, whether we should have the bill relaid and taken through all the various stages of consideration, or treated as having been passed and transmitted,” he stated.

Meanwhile, the Speaker of Parliament has backed the reintroduction of the bill, explaining that the former one had expired with the life of the 8th Parliament and could not be forwarded for presidential assent