Proponents of the anti-LGBTQ bill say they intend to demonstrate on August 21 against delays in the handling of lawsuits challenging Parliament’s passage of the bill.
Sam George, one of the MPs who introduced a private members bill that led to the passing of the legislation said on Wednesday that the Chief Justice and the court’s delay in passing a decision on the lawsuits has become a blockade to the transmission of the bill to the president for signing.
“We want to do a peaceful march on the 21st of August to the Chief Justice because right now it is not the president that is holding it. It is the Chief Justice. She is the one who is preventing parliament from sending it to the president,” he said on Wednesday when he and other minority MPs met the National Chief Imam and the Acting President of the Osu Traditional Council.
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The Supreme Court panel handling the case two weeks ago, deferred rulings on injunction applications that would have determined if Parliament could transmit the controversial bill to the president for signing.
Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo said it would instead conduct an early trial for the original lawsuits filed by Dr. Amada Odoi and Richard Dela Sky as they believe that a consolidated decision would provide context and clarity to the issues raised by the plaintiffs.
But a date was not set for when the court would begin that “early trial.”
