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| Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II |
The Dormaahene,
Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II, has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo represented by the Attorney-General (A-G), Godfred Yeboah Dame, to
drop the criminal charges against James Gyakye Quayson, the Member of
Parliament-elect for Assin North.
He is facing
charges of forgery and perjury in relation to certain alleged offences in the
run-up to the 2020 Assin North parliamentary election.
He pleaded not
guilty to five counts of forgery of passport or travel certificate, knowingly
making a false statutory declaration, perjury, and false declaration for
office.
It is the case
of the prosecution that Quayson allegedly made a false statement to the
Passport Office that he did not hold a passport to another country when he
applied for a Ghanaian Passport.
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The Dormaahene
speaking at the Bono, Bono East, Ahafo, and Western North regional version of
the Professor John Evans Atta Mills Commemorative Lecture in Sunyani on
Saturday [July 1, 2023], the Dormaahene appealed for the A-G to drop the
criminal charges against Quayson.
"As a
matter of urgency, I [Dormaahene] am appealing to the President of the Republic
[Akufo-Addo], if he has any role to play, that trial should be aborted, and the
Attorney-General should as a matter of urgency file a Nolle Prosequi to end
that particular decision" and abort the criminal case against Mr.
Quayson," he said.
He insisted that
it was needless for the Attorney General to continue the case after the chiefs
and people of the Assin North constituency re-elected Quayson.
Oseadeeyo
Agyemang Badu who doubles as the President of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs
said the law has a provision that permitted the A-G to discontinue any case if
citizens were not interested.
He said
continuing with the criminal trial was an insult to Ghanaians and the people of
Assin North.
He added that he
does not see any benefits coming to the country, should the A-G decide to
continue to prosecute James Gyakye Quayson, and that prosecuting him will
prevent him from doing his job as a legislator.
"Mr.
President [Nana Addo], you know I love you, this matter cannot go on", he
added.
Gyakye Quayson
won the Assin North has won by-election held in the constituency.
His win defied a
series of predictions in the run-up to the elections that went against his
performance in the election.
Quayson garnered
17,245 votes representing 57.56 percent to defeat the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
candidate, Charles Opoku, who secured 12,630 votes representing 42.15 percent
of the total votes cast.
The third
candidate, Bernice Enyonam Sefenu of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) managed
87 votes representing 0.29 percent.
Quayson won the
seat during the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections after securing
17,498 votes, representing 55.21 percent as against the incumbent, Abena
Durowaa Mensah who garnered 14,193 votes representing 44.79 percent.
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