Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson
A High Court in Accra has acquitted the Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson, of the criminal charges levelled against him by the state.
According to a post shared on X by journalist Kwaku Asante, the court ruled that the case against the Assin North MP had no merit.
The ruling of the court comes after the MP refused an offer by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, for the criminal charges levelled against him by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government to be discontinued.
Gyakye Quayson maintained that he wanted the case to be completed by the court so that he could clear his name.
“The High Court has acquitted MP for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson, of the charges levelled against him by the then NPP government.
“Gyakye Quayson refused an offer for his trial to be discontinued by the new AG. The judge ruled that the State’s case against him was meritless,” parts of the post read.
The Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson, who was ousted from Parliament in 2023 after the Supreme Court of Ghana ruled that he was ineligible to contest in the 2020 parliamentary election, still has a criminal case against him.
He was accused by the Office of the Attorney General, under Godfred Dame, of deceiving public officers to acquire state documents to contest in the 2020 parliamentary election.
On February 12, 2022, the state charged James Gyakye Quayson with five counts; deceit of a public officer, forgery of a passport, knowingly making a false statutory declaration, perjury, and false declaration.
The last hearing of this case was when the Supreme Court threw out Gyakye Quayson’s application for the court to strike out the High Court ruling that his criminal trial should be heard daily.
Gyakye Quayson, through his lawyers, filed a certiorari application, arguing that the trial judge had erred in denying their request to direct the Attorney General’s Office to provide additional disclosures.
The lawyers stated that the High Court judge erred in allowing the application for the trial to be heard daily. They added that the judge took his decision based on a document that lacked an accompanying affidavit.
But the Supreme Court panel that sat on the case ruled that it lacked merit.
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