Sam George, a member of parliament for Ningo Prampram, has urged Attorney General Godfed Dame to cease impeding the passage of the anti-LGBTQ+ Bill, permit the committee to continue its work, and to take the floor if he has any concerns.
The Bill is currently in committee, he said in an interview with Johnnie Hughes on the 3FM Sunrise Morning Program.
“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 emphasized that even though the Attorney General’s team has been working with the committee from the beginning, he didn’t offer any documents despite being in the nation when the legislature requested them. The AG has not, however, made himself available for a conversation with the committee after bringing his memo late.
“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 indicated the committee is hoping the AG will be available on Tuesday 21 February 2023 for them to deliberate on his memo which he believes will take about 30 minutes since the issues he’s raised in the memo has already been considered at the clause by clause discussions.
“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 emphasized
Sam George emphasized that even though the Attorney General’s team has been working with the committee from the beginning, he didn’t offer any documents despite being in the nation when the legislature requested them.
The AG has not, however, made himself available for a conversation with the committee after bringing his memo late.
