The chairman of Parliament’s Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, Shaib Mahama, has said that the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, includes safeguards to prevent mob attacks on people suspected to be LGBTQ.

Speaking to the media, he emphasised that people cannot assume someone is LGBTQ simply because of how they walk.

He added that the Bill makes provision for reporting, which he said would help prevent such acts.

“Mob action and public action in terms of beating and launching of suspected and so you can not just see a person walking on the street and you assume that he is a member of the LGBTQ community, so we have made sufficient provisions for that,” he stated.

He further said that anyone who suspects someone is part of the community should not touch, beat, or mob the person, noting that, instead, they should report the matter to appropriate authorities, including community chiefs, the police, and other bodies, for sanctions and punishment to be handled in a more appropriate way.

He asserted that failure to report, and choosing to attack instead, would attract sanctions, adding that the purpose is to protect human dignity and respect individuals’ human rights.

“The reporting regime is there and the fact that the prohibition of any attacks on anything will attract severe sanctions so this things I made it clear at the initial that we do all of this with due regard to human dignity and respect for human rights of the individuals,” he said.