Deputy Attorney-General Alfred Tuah Yeboah has justified the daily trial of Assin North Member of Parliament James Gyakye Quayson after indicating that some accused persons go to court three or four times a week.
He wondered about the difference that exists between those accused persons who show up in court several times a day and the Mr Gyakye Quaysion.
Speaking on the Ghana Tonight show on TV3 Wednesday, July 19, he said “I do not see any rush in this particular matter. This matter is before a court of law and every judge has the latitude as to how he or she may want to handle the case.
“In this particular case, the judge made an order that she is going to hear the matter today. In the subsequent proceedings, she made it clear that even if it is daily it doesn’t mean that every day he should be in court.
“There may times where the court may not even sit, there may times where the counsel for either the accused or the accused may be absent or the accused himself may be out. For example, on the very day that he was sworn in, because of that the court could not go on.
“We were in court today and the matter has been adjourned to next week Wednesday so this noise about day-to-day hearing and making comments as if the judge is trying to hound the accused person, is something that I cannot understand.
“If you go to the other courts in Accra, in some of the courts they go to court three times or sometimes four times a week and so I do see any difference between those accused persons and this accused person.”
His comments come at a time person such as An associate professor at Professor Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua said relating to this matter that justice hurried is justice buried.
Prof Appiagyei-Atuah said that the daily trial is “certainly going to affect him and so on that basis, fairness is not in there.”
The minority has also been n protesting the daily trail of their member.
They said that they had decided to reciprocate the response to the government’s escalation of what they describe as ‘persecution’ of Mr Quayson.
In a statement, the opposition lawmakers said “Following a request by the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Mr. Godfred Yeboah Dame, that Hon. James Gyakye Quayson be tried on a daily basis, despite an application for stay of proceedings and a pending application before the Court of Appeal against the daily trial, the High Court has ruled that it will continue to hear the case daily.
“In essence, the rulings by the High Court put Hon. James Gyakye Quayson in the same position that he was placed in by the Supreme Court before the Assin North Constituency by-election
“If the Member of Parliament must appear in court every weekday for trial, what time will he have to attend to Parliamentary business to represent the people of Assin North? We are, therefore, at this point, including all options available to us to defend and protect our colleagues.
“Hon. James Gyakye Quayson is the only person to have been elected twice within a Parliamentary term. He first won the 2020 Parliamentary election in Assin North Constituency, which was declared null and void by the Supreme Court after two and a half years. This triggered a by-election which he won again by an overwhelming 57.56% on the 27th.”
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