Kobina Tahir (KT) Hammond, the minister of trade and industry, has stated that James Gyakye Quayson, the member of parliament for Assin North, has had his fate decided.
He claimed that Gyakye Quayson would be sentenced to prison similarly to Adamu Dramani Sakande, a former Bawku Central MP who was locked up for fabricating his Burkinabe and British citizenship.
On Monday, July 4, 2023, KT Hammond said that Adamu Sakande’s case is essentially the same as that of Gyakye Quayson and that is why he is expected to go to prison in an interview with Oyerepa TV at Parliament.
“There is something we call precedence at the court.. this is the same thing that happened with Adamu Sakande. He (Sakande) came to this house, the same NDC (National Democratic Congress) members were the ones who sacked him from parliament and took him to court. He was imprisoned and he eventually died and was buried. It is the same matter.
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“They are making all kinds of noise about his swearing-in. I prompted the former deputy Attorney General, Dominic Ayine, to tell gentleman (Quayson) that we have seen this before in this house. He should leave this house before he would be jailed.
“There is precedence, this is the same as the Adamu Sakande case. Adamu was jailed for having multiple citizenships and Quayson had the same issue. Now he (Quayson) has renounced his other citizenship and he is only Ghanaian…but laws he broke previously is what we are talking about,” he said in Twi.
The Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II, was also criticized by KT Hammond, the MP for Adansi Asokwa, for criticizing the Supreme Court’s decision that resulted in Quayson’s removal as an MP and for urging the state to drop its criminal investigation of the MP for Assin North.
