NDC Assin North MP  Granted GH₵100,000  Bail With One Surerity 

The Accra High Court in the Greater Accra Region presided over by Justice Mary Maame Ekue Nsenkyire has granted the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Assin North Constituency James Gyakye Quayson, a GH₵100,000 bail in a case of forgery and perjury brought against the male legislator.

The bail term is also to be accompanied with one surety, according to the report reaching the soireenews.com

Presiding over the case, Justice Mary Maame Ekue Nsenkyire admitted the bail to the embattled MP after the latter had pleaded not guilty to five counts of forgery of passport or travel certificate, knowingly making a false statutory declaration, perjury, and false declaration for office, the report added.

Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, the lawyer for the NDC lawmaker, is said to have prayed the court to grant his client a self-recognizance bail but this was refused.

This was because as it would be recalled, the bailiff of the court had earlier difficulties in reaching the MP to serve him with the court processes.

On the part of the state, the Deputy Attorney General (AG), Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, argued for the court to withhold the self-recognizance bail being sought by James Gyakye Quayson’s team, stressing that it had taken the state a great deal to be able to get the MP to court.

The prosecution told the court that the MP had allegedly made a false statement to the Passport Office while applying for a Ghanaian passport that he did not hold any other passport of another country.

The prosecution has accused the MP of making a false declaration to the Electoral Commission (EC) while filing to contest the seat of the Assin North constituency that he did not owe any allegiance to another country, the report added.