A prominent figure within the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Victor Smith, has called for an investigation into the citizenship status of other MPs following the removal of James Gyakye Quayson as Member of Parliament for Assin North, for failing to renounce his Canadian citizenship prior to the 2020 elections.

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According to Mr Smith, he possesses information regarding an MP from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who applied for the renunciation of her US citizenship at a later date than Gyakye Quayson did for his Canadian citizenship.

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The MP in question represents the Nsuta-Kwaman-Beposo Constituency and happens to be Adelaide Yaa Agyeiwaa Ntim, the sister of NPP National Chairman Stephen Ntim.

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“Gyakye Quayson is in court for something to do with dual nationality. There are a few people in there (parliament) and we have to investigate this. It is documented that one NPP MP, called Yaa Agyeiwaa Ntim, a sister of the NPP chairman, had a similar issue.

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“Even for her, she said she filed for her renunciation in 2020 before she went for the election. I’m almost certain that if we look at her document or that from the US Embassy, we would see that her renunciation did not take effect before we went into the election. But as for her, they have left her remaining as an MP,” he said in Twi in an Ahorot FM interview on Thursday, June 22, 2023.

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Victor Smith, a former High Commissioner of Ghana to the United Kingdom, said that he is certain that the NPP MP did not get her renunciation certificate from the US government just like Gyakye Quayson before the 2020 election.

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“In the case of Gyakye Quayson, they agreed that he has renounced his foreign citizenship but at the time he went for the election, the approval had not been given and so because of that he can’t be an MP,” he said.

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He called on the NPP MP to prove him wrong saying, “I’m asking that this woman, Yaa Agyeiwaa Ntim, the MP for Nsuta-Kwaman-Beposo, to bring documents to show that the time she went for election, the US government had approved her renunciation.”

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