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Minority at a press conference today Tuesday, June 6, 2023, clears air over Supreme Court judgment on Hon. James Gyakye Quayson case.
The nominee for the post of Chief Justice (Justice Gertrude Araba Essaba Torkornoo) told the whole world that she is a textualist in her preferred approach to interpreting the Constitution of Ghana 1992.
What was the text in dispute in the case of Michael Ankomah Nimfah Vs James Gyakye Quayson and Others? This is the famous James Gyakye Quayson case. The text in dispute is Article 94 (2) (a) of the 1992 Constitution and it reads;
“94(2) A person shall not be qualified to be a member of Parliament if he (a) owes allegiance to a country other than Ghana”
The facts of the case, not disputed at any time, are that Quayson, at the time of being sworn in to become a member of Parliament, had successfully renounced all allegiances to any other country and his allegiance was to only the Republic of Ghana.
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