Dormaahene appeals to President Akufo-Addo, Attorney General to halt Gyakye Quayson’s trial

 Dormaahene and President of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs,Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II, has appealed to President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame to discontinue the ongoing criminal trial against MP-elect for Assin North Constituency, Mr James Gyakye Quayson.

According to him, prosecuting the MP would not benefit the country in anyway hence the need for the two to urgently do what they can to bring to an end to the trial.

The Dormaahene  made the appeal at the 10th-Anniversary Lecture of John Evans Atta Mills, Ghana’s former late President in Sunyani in the Bono Region of Ghana.

“As a matter of urgency, I am appealing to the President of the Republic, Attorney General if he has any role to play, that trial should be aborted. The Attorney General should as a matter of urgency file a nolle prosequi to end that particular decision,” he appealed.

“Honestly, I don’t see the benefits this prosecution will bring Ghanaians. If he is in court, he can’t fulfil his mandate so the president and the Attorney General should do something urgently to end this matter, so we move on as Ghanaians,” the Dormaahene Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II said in a viral video sighted by GhanaPlus.com.

Gyakye Quayson’s trail

Mr Gyakye Quayson, MP elect for Assin North Constituency is facing criminal charges for his alleged failure to renounce his dual citizen status prior to filling his nomination for the 2020 Parliamentary elections.

He is among other things facing five counts; deceit of a public officer, forgery of a passport, knowingly making a false statutory declaration and perjury.

The development in May this year caused him his Parliamentary seat paving way for a by-election to elect a new Member of Parliament in his stead.

Mr Quayson was however, giving an overwhelming node by the constituency to re- represent them in the legislative house of Ghana.

Source: GhanaPlus.com