The apex court has directed that the suit-evading Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Gyekye Quayson, be served as a private citizen and not MP.
The Supreme Court gave the order to its Registrar on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, when the case between the governing NPP and the NDC MP was heard.
The NPP is praying for the Supreme Court to stop the Assin North Member of Parliament from holding himself as such.
According to the writ filed at the Court, the NPP want James Gyekye Quayson stopped from joining any parliamentary sitting.
The Supreme Court gave the directive for the MP to be served as an individual because attempts by the bailiff to serve the suit on him through Parliament has been unsuccessful.
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has also not received the process because he is out of the country.
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According to the NPP’s Director of Elections, Evans Nimako, the party will employ the judicial process to stop the MP from attending Parliament.
He also wants the Supreme Court to interpret Article 94 (2A) of the 1992 Constitution.
He argued that a Cape Coast High Court in July 2021, annulled the Assin North Parliamentary elections saying that Mr Quayson was not eligible to contest the polls.
“We are here for an interpretation of Article 94 (2a) because we have realized that going to court, at the High Court in Cape Coast and the Court of Appeal, the lawyer for the NDC MP for Assin North, has been raising the issue of interpretation of the article. We think that this has to be settled, and so today, we are at the Supreme Court to seek interpretation of Article 94 (2a).”
“In addition to this, we are also asking the court to injunct the gentleman not to hold himself as such. As we are aware, the High Court in Cape Coast has already given judgement and has given orders to the Electoral Commission to conduct fresh elections in view of the fact that the gentleman was not qualified when he applied to contest on the ticket of the NDC in the said constituency.”
An appeal has since been lodged at the Court of Appeal and remains outstanding. A resident of the constituency Michael Ankomah Nimfah who initiated the action against the MP is seeking the intervention of the Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, Evans Nimako has dispelled claims that the NPP is out to reduce the representation of the Minority Group in Parliament to enable the Majority to pass the E-levy Bill.