Attorney-General (A-G) Godfred Yeboah Dame and lawyers for James Gyakye Quayson caught up in blame game over delay of perjury and forgery trial.

The A-G claims Quayson’s lawyers have adopted delayed tactics to force the wheels of justice to grind at a snail pace.

Hitherto, lead counsel for Quayson, Tsatsu Tsikata blames the A-G for deliberately avoiding to make full disclosure, hence was hiding something.

The A-G frustration arise from the case been delayed for a without a clear headway.

The trial had been bedeviled with multiple applications from the defence side.

The High Court, presided over by Justice Mary Maame Ekue Yanzuh, on Friday, July 14, 2023, adjourned to Tuesday, July 18, to rule on the fourth application filed by Quayson’s lawyers.

Quayson’s lawyers first filed a motion to appeal the ruling of the court on conducting the trial on day-to-day basis.

Subsequently, they also filed an application to stay proceedings of the court, pending a decision of the Court of Appeal.

Two of the earlier applications of the defence side failed but they have managed to caused the case to freeze from 20th to 23rd June.

The only application that have succeeded so far was a motion that the accused was being sworn in by Parliament, as the re-elected people of Assin North representative.

Emmanuel Amaliba, Director of National Democratic Congress (NDC) Legal Affairs, said the A-G is playing double standard with the issue of disclosure.

He said at one breathe, the A-G, in the Republic versus Kennedy Agyemang, was in support of full disclosure but backtracked on the same argument in the case Quayson.

Deputy A-G Alfred Tuah-Yeboah said it is within the It is within their rights to use the legal process to fight their course but that doesn’t mean that when they file applications the court must wait for them for the application to be moved at the appellant’s court or the