Embattled Member of Parliament for Assin North Constituency, James Gyekye Quayson, has been told he cannot breach the 1992 Constitution and still continue to hold himself as a citizen of Ghana.
Private legal practitioner, Mr Frank Davies, who made the assertion argued one cannot involve in grievous breaches of the Constitution and still go around holding himself as a citizen of this country.
According to him, from day one when the judgment of the High Court was rendered, it was manifestly obvious that James Gyekye Quayson cannot hold himself out as a Member of Parliament but was attending to the business of Parliament.
“But today, that road has been effectively blocked,” he stated.
He added, “What we had put before the court, my expectation was that the constitution of the land would be upheld and that the constitution of the land will be given its highest priority, that is what has happened.
Speaking after the Supreme Court ruled to restrain the MP from holding himself as representative of the Assin North Constituency in Parliament, Mr. Frank Davies pointed out that the Apex Court upheld the 1992 Constitution by ordering Mr. Quayson to stop holding himself as a lawmaker.
The Supreme Court by a majority decision of 5-2 ordered Gyekye Quayson from holding himself as a lawmaker.
Justices Agnes Dordzie and Nene Amegatcher dissented while Prof. Henrietta Mensah Bonsu, Mariama Owusu, Gertrude Torkornoo, and Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi voted in favour.
The Cape Coast High Court, presided over by Justice Coram Kwasi Boakye, had earlier ruled that Mr Gyakye Quayson was not eligible to contest the December 7, 2020, Parliamentary Elections because he bore dual citizenship before picking nomination forms from the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC).
Fresh elections were, as a result, ordered to be conducted while Mr Gyakye Quayson was asked to cease holding himself as MP.
But the man accused of having Canadian and Ghanaian citizenship allegedly goes to Parliament to join in proceedings.
