The Attorney General and Minister for Justice Dominic Ayine has revealed that the female members of parliament stopped the passage of the property rights of spouses (side chics bill).
According to Dominic Ayine, the female MPs shot down the property rights of spouses’ bills because they viewed it as a “side chics” bill.
He asserted that the female parliamentarians noted that the bill was going to give side chics an advantage.
Dominic Ayine mentioned that the closest attempt was during President John Mahama’s first term when a proposed law sought to recognize cohabiting partners as legally married after five years.
Speaking during the swearing-in of the Constitutional Review Committee, Dr Dominic Ayine narrated, “It has been 34 years since the coming into force of the constitution and we are yet to pass legislation on the property rights of spouses. The nearest we came to fulfilling this obligation was under Mr President’s first term of office when my Boss the Honourable Marrieta Brew tabled a motion in parliament in 2016 to regulate the property rights of spouses.
However, the bill was shot down due to a single provision, relating to co-habitation, the women caucus in parliament at the time, strongly opposed that provision and they were louder than the voices of all the men put together”, he added.
The Attorney General further added, “There were twenty women and during the consideration stage when I even proposed to take out the co-habitation clause which basically provided that, if a man and a woman it didn’t matter whether it was a married man or an unmarried man stay together for 5 years, presented themselves to their neighbours as husband and wife the woman was entitled to inherit the man property.
The women took this to be an advantage to side chicks and they shot it down even though there were just twenty of them”, he revealed.
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