Election of Speaker: Assin North MP-elect restrained from voting
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Cite Assin North MP for contempt for flouting court injunction to vote in Parliament – Godfred Dame LISTEN
JAN 8, 2021
A former Deputy Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame wants James Gyakye Quayson, the injuncted Member of Parliament for Assin North, cited for contempt.
He made the call on the back of the swearing-in of Mr. Quayson as MP despite a court injunction against his swearing-in.
Mr. Dame said the MP action is an affront to the court’s directive and lawyers for the plaintiff should bring the matter up in court.
He said this in an interview with Citi News.
“Clearly, if a person acts in violation of a court order and if a person acts in woeful disregard of the authority of a court, it is something that is in contempt of court. But of course, whether the contempt will be followed or not, is for the lawyers who were involved in the matter to take the necessary decision, and it is up to them to pursue the issue of contempt.”
James Gyakye Quayson, Assin North MP-elect
Cyril Kwabena Oteng Nsiah, the clerk of Parliament has ruled that he is not going to recognise the Assin North MP-elect in the election of Speaker of Parliament.
In his ruling, Oteng Nsiah said, “I was duly served and therefore, I do not recognise James Gyakye Quayson for the election of the Speaker.”
James Gyakye Quayson, the MP-elect for Assin North has been restrained from holding himself out as the MP-elect for the Assin North constituency within the Central Region of Ghana.
The NDC MP-elect was spotted in the chamber of Parliament ahead of the inauguration of the 8th Parliament of the fourth Republic.