Police Allegedly Surround Home Of Assin North MP -In Attempt To Serve Him Court Order

A group of Police officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) reportedly surrounded the home of Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson on Thursday in an attempt to serve him a court injunction restraining him from holding himself out as MP.

According to the reports, the CID officers besieged the Manet, Spintex (NEW ROAD) home of the MP and at some points were seen virtually trying to scale the walls of the house, burglar style, in order to invade it.

It is not clear if the officers eventually succeeded but unconfirmed reports have it that at the time of the virtual burglary, the MP was out of the house.

The injunction that the Police is looking for the MP to serve resulted from the ruling of the Supreme Court following a case by New Patriotic Party (NPP) member, Mr Michael Ankomah Nimfah.

Mr. Nimfah had, filed an application at the apex Court to injunct the MP-elect following an earlier judgment by a Cape Coast High Court that the MP had run for election while still holding Canadian citizenship.

The Minority in Parliament has since said that the claim that the Bailiff was thrown out by a Police escort of the MP is strange because the NDC MP does not have any police escort.

On Wednesday, 9 February 2022, Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu noted that: “This is the first time in the history of Ghana that such a flagrant disregard of the privileges of Parliament and breach of the Constitution has taken place.”

He continued, “We in the Minority are deeply concerned by that blatantly unconstitutional act which was recognised by the Supreme Court for what is a brazen violation of the Constitution. We applaud the justices of the Supreme Court for upholding the fidelity of the law by pointing out to the desperate lawyers of the NPP the brazenly unconstitutional nature of the attempt to serve a sitting MP on the

precincts of Parliament. We urge the Court to continue to uphold the sanctity of the Constitution.”

Meanwhile, the attempt to serve the MP a court order is happening without permission from the Speaker of Parliament who is out of the country for a medical checkup.