Today, an Accra High Court has granted bail to the Assin North Member of Parliament (MP) Mr. James Gyakye Quayson in the sum of GHS100,000 with one surety.
The Assin North legislator has been charged on five counts of forgery of passport or travel certificate, knowingly making a false statutory declaration, perjury and false declaration for office.
According to Justice Mary Maame Ekue Nsenkyire, who presided over the case, the MP should be granted bail after he had pleaded not guilty to all five charges leveled against him.
Meanwhile, the Lawyer for the embattled MP, Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata had prayed the court to grant his client a self -recognizance bail, but the court refused on the basis of the difficulties the bailiff had in serving the MP with the court process.
However, Deputy Attorney- General (A-G), Mr. Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, also prayed the court not to grant the MP with a self-recognizance bail, arguing that the state went to great lengths in order to serve Mr. Quayson with the court process.
Mr. Quayson was accompanied to the court for the first time today in the company of the National Chairman of the NDC, Mr. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, two former Attorney -Generals (A-G), Mrs. Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong and Mrs. Betty Mould Iddrisu and many other party executives.
