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Three Members of Parliament have introduced a Private Members’ Bill to amend the Criminal and Other Offences Act 1960 (Act 29) to prohibit the practice by any person as a witch doctor or witchfinder.
The sponsors are MPs for Madina, Pusiga and Wa East constituencies, Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu, Hajia Laadi Ayii Ayamba and Dr. Godfred Seidu Jasaw respectively.
The bill is expected to also proscribe the declaration, accusation, naming, or labeling of another person as a witch; to prohibit a person from employing or soliciting anyone to accuse, name, label, indicate, or declare another person as a witch and provide for related matters.
The bill is coming at a time when JoyNews' has produced and aired a documentary titled, 'Finding the Witch Hunters.'
On Sunday, November 14, 2021 edition of The Law, host Samson Lardi Anyenini, discussed the details of the bill with guests; MP for Madina, Francis Xavier Sosu who is one of the proponents of the bill, and the Executive Director of the Sanneh Institute, Prof John Azumah.
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