NPP Didn’t Boycott Parliamentary Business To Solidarize With Adamu Sakande, Why Should NDC Empathize With Gyakye Quayson? – Lawyer Asks2 min read

Private Legal Practitioner, Lawyer Anokye Frimpong has criticized the Minority in Parliament for boycotting government business to harmonize with James Gyakye Quayson who is facing prosecution in court.

According to Historian Anokye Frimpong, the NPP didn’t boycott parliamentary activities to empathize with its late MP, Adamu Sakande.

He asked: “Why should the NDC MPs boycott Parliamentary business to follow Gyekye Quayson who is facing prosecution in court.

Giving his take on the topic “Minority Boycotting Parliament – Right or Solidarity?” on Time FM’s Ama Ghana Morning Show, he said there is no difference between the case of Mr. Quayson and the late MP for Bawku Central, Adamu Sakende.

Lawyer Anokye Frimpong was angry that the NDC MPs have dragged the issue too far.

He said if the NDC MPs have boycotted parliament to solidarise with the Assin North MP then they should do the same for every Ghanaian standing trial at court because Gyakye Quayson is not better than any Ghanaian.

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Background

Adamu Sakande sojourned in the UK for several years and when the seat of Bawku Central became vacant he decided to fly down and contest. The NPP leadership did not make any background check on the guy and allowed him to run for the Parliamentary seat. And he won. Barely two years later, one Sumaila Beblie, an NDC cattle dealer, took him to court for holding dual citizenship. The case went up and down in the law courts and finally, Sakande was found guilty and jailed at the Nsawam Maximum Prison.

He felt ill and on the verge of dying. The state pardoned him and he flew back to the UK only to die a few months later.

Gyekye Quayson sojourned in Canada for more than 45 years and also flew back to Ghana to contest the NDC Parliamentary Primaries of Assin North in 2012. The NDC did a background check on him following a tip-off from some of the NDC contestants and found that he held dual citizenship. He was barred from contesting by the leadership of the NDC.

He flew back to Canada only to come back in 2016 to contest again without denouncing his citizenship of Canada.

He flew back to Canada again and returned to contest the 2020 Parliamentary Election and lied to the EC that everything about his denunciation was correct. He was then allowed to file his papers. Unknown to the EC, the documents presented by Mr Quayson were doctored.