The paramount chief of the Dormaa Traditional Area, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II, has appealed to President Akufo-Addo and the Attorney General to stop, as a matter of urgency, the trial of the MP for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson.
Quayson is facing charges of forgery and perjury in relation to alleged offences in the run-up to the 2020 parliamentary election.
He has 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 Dormaahene said if the trial continues, it will hinder development, especially within Assin North.
Speaking at the tenth commemorative lecture of the late president Professor John Evans Atta Mills at Sunyani Technical University on Saturday (1 July 2023), Agyemang Badu said: “Mr President [Akufo-Addo], you know I love you. This matter cannot go on.
“As a matter of urgency, I [Dormaahene] am appealing to the President of the Republic, [Akufo-Addo] – if he has any role to play, that trial should be aborted, and the Attorney General should, as a matter of urgency, file a nolle prosequi to end that particular decision and abort the criminal case against Mr Quayson,” said Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II, who is also the president of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs.
Listen to the Dormaahene in the audio clip attached below:
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