By Love Wilhelmina Abanonave
Member of the NDC Communications Team, Dr. Prince Aggrey has made remarks suggesting that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had set conditions for a loan of approximately three billion dollars to Ghana, one of which was not to sign the anti-LGBTQ+ bill.
Speaking on GBC’s ‘Weekly Press Review’ on Friday, October 31, 2025, Dr. Aggrey revealed that was the main reason the former President Nana Akufo-Addo was hesitant in signing the bill into law.
Reacting to Dr. Aggrey’s claims, member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Communications Team, Alfred Thompson likened the current situation of the bill being re-laid in parliament to when the NPP was in government and faced pressure to declare a state of emergency on galamsey.
According to him, the NDC is finding it difficult to do same in declaring a state of emergency just as the lgbtq+ bill is being delayed.
Mr. Thompson also defended former President Nana Akufo-Addo’s decision not to sign the bill, saying that Akufo-Addo had put the country’s interests ahead of his personal views in his tenure.
He also stated that the bill was not to be changed as the current government proposes.
“We are asking that nothing be changed in the bill because what is good for the goose is good for the gander”.
This came after the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin directed that the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, widely known as the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill, be reintroduced in the current (Ninth) Parliament following the expiration of the Eighth Parliament.
