Gyakye Quayson Acquitted and Discharged Over Perjury, Other Charges

The criminal jurisdiction of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Mary Ekue Yanzuh has acquitted and discharged the embattled Member of Parliament for Assin North in the Central Region, Gyakye Quayson, after three years of a legal battle over a host of charges, including perjury.

The MP, who declined an offer by the new Attorney General to discontinue the 2022 lawsuit against him, walks a free man today because, in the view of the judge, the prosecution failed to provide enough evidence against him.

Gyakie Quayson, who re-contested and won the Assin North parliamentary seat after his name was expunged from the house of legislature in 2023 following a Supreme court decision that discredited him from contesting the 2020 elections, had until today been in court fighting off charges of deceit of public officer, forgery of passport or travel certificates, knowingly making a false declaration, and perjury and false declaration for office.

The MP would have been compelled to open his defence if the prosecution had provided enough evidence to support the charges.

This case was part of the substantive case brought against him as a dual citizenship holder who went ahead to contest an election to be an MP without denouncing his citizenship on time as the constitution requires.

Source: JoyNews