The Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Sam Nartey George, has requested the Attorney General, Mr Godfed Dame, to cease impeding the passage of the anti-LGBTQ+ Bill and allow the committee to complete its job, and to come to the floor if he has any objections.
In an interview with Johnnie Hughes on 3FM Sunrise Morning Program, he stated that the Bill is still at the committee level.
"Respectfully I will say the Attorney General is filibustering with the Bill. I will say the Attorney General is a clog in the wheel of parliament and he must take notice that we are taking keen notice of it and we will flex our muscle as parliamentarians very soon with him," he said.
Sam George emphasised that the Attorney General was in the nation when parliament requested memoranda, but he did not produce any, despite the fact that his staff had been with the committee since the beginning.
But, because he sent his letter late, the AG has not agreed to meet with the committee.
"After we finished with the work of all the 176 memos we had and the committee has done the clause by clause consideration, it is now the Attorney General saying he has a memo to bring" he said.
Sam George also stated that the committee hopes the AG will be accessible on Tuesday, February 21, 2023, so that they may discuss his memo, which he expects will take around 30 minutes due to the difficulties he's raised.
"We are looking to see if Tuesday he will be available. We will address his memo because his memo is something that we will dispatch in just 30 minutes because the substance of his memo has already been dealt with at the Clause by Clause Consideration, so that we can go to the floor.
"He is the Attorney General so he will be given the opportunity to come and debate on the floor" he emphasised