The National Communications Officer for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has described the suit filed by private legal practitioner Richard Dela Sky as an “NPP-sponsored suit”.
A suit filed at the Supreme Court today, March 5, seeks to injunct President Akufo-Addo from assenting to the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill passed by Parliament.
The suit has since stoked controversy about how the President learned about the yet-to-be-filed suit in his statement on Monday, March 4.
Reacting to the development in a post on his X profile, the outspoken NDC communicator accused President Akufo-Addo of lying to the country and international community about the non-existent suit.
“This legal action is nothing but an NPP-sponsored suit, calculated to serve as a convenient excuse for the President to refuse to assent to the Bill on Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values.
“The NPP pretended to support the anti-LGBTQI Bill in the open, only to stab the Christian community, Muslim community, Traditional authorities and Ghanaians at large, in the back.”
As can be seen on the face of the writ, the suit challenging the constitutionality of the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, was filed in the Supreme Court of Ghana today, 5th March, 2024 at about 1pm.
This begs the question as to how President Akufo-Addo… pic.twitter.com/vrxuruh0kJ
— Sammy Gyamfi (@SammyGyamfi_) March 5, 2024
“Why did the President lie to the nation and international community yesterday, that a suit had been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill when he knew that to be false?” he quizzed.
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