Minority Leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, has announced that his caucus intends to intensify their opposition to the ongoing criminal trial of James Gyakye Quayson, the Member of Parliament for Assin North, in the near future.
In a move that aims to disrupt the government’s parliamentary proceedings, Members of Parliament (MPs) belonging to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have made the decision to boycott legislative sessions whenever the embattled Assin North legislator, James Gyakye Quayson, is slated to attend his ongoing trial.
The MPs have accused the government of targeting their party members and are demanding the dismissal of Quayson’s trial. This action is anticipated to impede the government’s legislative agenda in parliament.
Dr Ato Forson, in an interview on JoyNews, on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, said that they would do more than just boycott sittings of the House starting from next week.
He said that if the government wants its business to continue, it should stop prosecuting Gyakye Quayson on a daily basis.
“If we sit unconcerned for government to pick our members one by one and persecute them like the way they are doing to our colleague James Gyakye Quayson, they will come after every one of us.
“We have decided as a caucus to ensure that every day or any day that our colleague will be invited to go to court, we will go with him. They (the government) will have to contend with that. If they want him to be in the courtroom on a daily basis, we will also be there on a daily basis.
“The government will have to choose government business against Gyakye Quayson’s appearance on a daily basis. If they want us to assist the government to run, then they will have to choose wisely… This is our first activity that we are doing. We may escalate to signal our displeasure to the government and there are so many other things we are going to do in the coming days,” he said.
Ato Forson, the MP for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam, refuted the assertion that his caucus is hurting Ghanaians with the decision they have taken.
He said that it is the “insensitive” Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government that is making the people of Ghana suffer.