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Mahama suggests Anti-LGBTQ Bill must be government-sponsored

President John Mahama on Tuesday said the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, commonly referred to as the Anti-Gay Bill, expired with the tenure of the Eighth Parliament, as it failed to receive the presidential assent.

Ghana does not need an LGBT bill to enforce family values - Mahama tells Catholic Bishops

"If we are teaching our values in school, we won't need to pass a bill [on LGBT] to enforce our family values. And that is where I think more than, even the family values bill is [on] us agreeing on a curriculum that inculcates these values into our children as they are growing up so that we don't need to legislate it. And so we will see how all these will go. I am looking forward to a review conference," President John Mahama has said.