Godfred Dame, The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has stated that the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill is not unconstitutional but faces fundamental challenges.
"The bill will face some challenges when implemented because some provisions will violate some fundamental human rights and freedoms, particularly the right to privacy," Mr Dame cautioned.
The anti-LGBTQI+ bill seeks to criminalise activities of persons who hold out as lesbian, gay, transgender, transsexual or queer, persons who hold divergent socio-cultural notions of sex, persons with biological anomaly regarding their gender at birth, persons involved in promotion of or advocacy and funding for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer related activities, as well as persons who conduct surgicalIn an opinion to the Chairman of the Committee on Constitu-tional, Legal and...
He noted that the bill also made any union or marriage entered into by persons of the same sex and persons who had undergone gender or sex reassignment void. "Sections of the bill in its pres-ent form violates some fundamen-tal rights and freedoms enshrined in the 1992 Constitution, including right to freedom of expression, thought, conscience and freedom from discrimination while other provisions of the bill passes test of constitutionality.
"Unnatural carnal knowledge is defined by section 104 as sexual intercourse with a person in an unnatural manner, or with an animal thus, unnatural carnal knowledge of a person of at least 16 years with consent of that person and unnatural carnal knowledge of an animal is already criminalised by Act 29 as misdemeanour.Get the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox
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