Fixing The Country: Open Letter To President Of Ghana - Part 5

Dear His Excellency President Nana Addo.

Sir, in respond to your clarion call for us the Citizenry to be constructive citizens and not spectators, I hereby write to you in particular and the citizenry in general, on a pertinent National issue, precisely the burden with Dual Citizenship. As you are fully aware, Dual Citizenship holders are prohibited by the Constitution of Ghana from holding Public Policy Making Offices or very sensitive Public Offices in Ghana. This problem caused a causality to the membership of Parliament I guess in 2009, in the person of the late Hon Adamu Sankande and is likely to cause further causalities of the membership of the current Parliament thus it has become or may become a very hot topical subject in the public discourse. Hence the public need to be well educated on that matter to prevent future problems with these provision of the Constitution.

I heard last week that to forestall future casualties especially to the Membership of Parliament who may be holders of Dual Citizenship, the Member of Parliament of Akim Oda, Hon Kennedy Osei Nyarko reportedly placed or he is to place before Parliament a Citizenship Amendment Bill presumably to amend both Article 94(2) of the 1992 Constitution which prevents a Ghanaian Citizen by birth or decent owing allegiance to another Country from being a Member of Parliament therefore all offices which has the same requirement like the President of Ghana, the VP, the Speaker, a Deputy Speaker and members of the Public Services Commission and as provided at Article 8 (2) of the 1992 Constitution which prohibits person with dual citizenship from holding any of the following offices: (a). Ambassador or High Commissioner (b) Secretary to the Cabinet; (c). Chief of Defence Staff or any Service Chief; (d). Inspector-General of Police; (e). Commissioner, Customs, Excise and Preventive Service; (f). Director of Immigration Service; and (g). Any other office specified by an Act of Parliament.

Mr President as you are fully aware, both the 1969 and 1979 Constitutions of Ghana did not allow for Dual Citizenship at all and the 1992 Constitution which also embodies popular Sovereignty before 1996 or initially also prohibited Dual Citizenship at Article 8 (1) of the 1992 Constitution, hence Dual Citizenship was not part of our vocabulary before 1996. This was to prevent a divided loyalty and allegiance, which are not divisible because you cannot serve two masters at the same time.

Mr President, It was for this reason that among others that when you were the Attorney General in the first regime of President Kofour caused the Citizenship Act 2000 (Act 591) to be promulgated and as stated therein, among other provisions of the Citizenship Act 2000 (Act 591) Section 16 (2) of Citizenship Act 2000 (Act 591) fortified Article 8 (2) of the 1992 Constitution as amended in 1996 and it also fortified Article 94 (2) of the 1992 Constitution when it expanded the list of Offices which Dual Citizenship cannot hold to include (a) Chief Justice and Justices of the Supreme Court; (b) Commissioner of Custom, Excise and Preventive Service; (c) Director of Immigration Service;(d) Commissioner, Value Added Tax Service; (e) Chief Fire Officer; (f) Chief Director of a Ministry; (g) the rank of a Colonel in the Army or its equivalent in the other security services; and (h) any other public office that the Minister may by legislative instrument prescribe.

Unfortunately in a suite Asare Vrs Attorney General (J1 6 of 2011) [2012] GHASC 31 (22 May 2012) the Supreme Court of Ghana declared Act 2000 ((Act 591) as unconstitutional the whole or some aspect of it on the ground it conferred excessive, unnecessary and unreasonable power in excess of Parliament’s authority on the Minister of the Interior to ban dual citizens from holding any public office that the Minister may prescribe. According the Court, this delegated Ministerial authority is subject to abuse and would not have the protective process of Parliamentary debates which attend the passage of a Bill into an Act. But fortunately, the Supreme Court of Ghana by unanimous decision agreed with the then Attorney General (Hon Mr Martin Amadu), that one cannot serve two masters at the same time. So both Article 8 (2) and 94 (2) were upheld or authenticated by Supreme Court of Ghana as within the powers of the Constitution.

Mr President, as you are aware, the permissibility of Dual Citizenship in our Constitution as amended in 1996 by Parliament was to grant Ghanaians in the Diaspora only to retain their Ghanaian Citizenship for the acquisition of citizenship of other countries by Ghanaians so as to take advantage of opportunities in those Countries but not to dilute the sanctity or the Sovereignty of the State of Ghana. Since the acquisition of Citizenship of another Country will require swearing of an Allegiance to the Country (the Constitution and laws of the Country), this in effect or in real sense tantamount to almost a hidden disabling or denouncing the allegiance of the previous Country that is Ghana (which was done during the acquisition of a passport) because the wording of the Oath of Allegiance is clearly made to sound so and per the Holy Bible at Mt 6:24 –26 which says, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. Hence No one can serve two masters at the same time.

Mr President, the ban of holders of dual citizenship from becoming Members of Parliament, therefore the President and VP of Ghana, the Speaker and his two deputies, member of the Public Service Commission, IGP, CDS, the Chief of Security Services, Ambassadors etc was for a very good National Interest to protect the Sovereignty of Ghana and National Interest therefore not negotiable because no one can serve two masters at the same time. Mr President, it is very interesting to remind you that you as the Attorney General in the President Kofour’s era made it clear that no one should be allowed to serve two Masters at the same time. So please in your own words do not allow anyone to serve two masters at the same time, do not spoil your legacy Sir.

Mr President, it anticipated that this stand may be made clear to the citizenry by the differences between Nationality and Citizenship as submitted or explained below to enrich the public discourse.

So, Mr President, in an attempt to do so, let me walk through the memory lane on Nationality and Citizenship, this is so with the view to dealing with the bone of contention that is the burden of dual Citizenship.

According to some authorities or entrenched democratic nations like the UK and USA, there is a vast difference between Citizenship and Nationality.

That Citizenship is defined internally within each country to mean a status that supposedly allows the person full political, economic, social and legal rights in the country. That is to say Citizenship means that you have full political, economic and social rights with Responsibilities and Privileges to participate in the affairs of a Nation and also the Nation has the full right to deal with you or control you or use or call to defend the Country against an enemy. This means that one is guaranteed the right to vote, the right to own properties, the right to work, and the right to live in the country and it also provides the country the full rights over the person or to control you or use to combat an external enemy and could be the border Country. So imagine the Army Commander of the Ukraine Army is also a citizen of Russia for that matter a Dual Citizenship holder. .

Citizenship is legally acquired after fulfilling the eligibilities of becoming a citizen of any country, hence Citizenship is a legal or juristic concept, approved by a government of a country when certain legal requirements are met especially swearing of an oath of allegiance to the Country to authenticate or meet the other requirements for granting Citizenship. So, Citizenship is not a right because it is given to one by legal means by a Government as a political status and the Government can deny or accept the request or the holder too can renounce the citizenship after meeting the requirement to do so and if and only if he or she is duly issued with a certificate to legally certify the separation between the affected person and the affected State same as ‘the divorce of the marriage by Court or ordinance. When a person becomes a citizen of the state, he or she may be required to pay taxes to the State like USA, he has the right to vote, to work, to reside and he may be free to take an active part in the running of the country. Citizenship may be obtained by Birth, by Heritance and by grant through Marriage and Naturalization or Citizen by Parliament as in Article 9 (Citizenship Laws by Parliament) of the 1992. Citizenship is man made by the choice of the individual which may be legally accepted by the affected State.

Nationality on the other hand, implies where you are born or place or origin of birth and or where your parents were born, hence it is based on the right of the Soil (Jus Soli) that is birthright hence a natural phenomenon. Also Nationality is obtained by birthright (DNA) from your parents or grandparents (Jus Sanguinis or by blood or by descent) hence also a natural phenomenon. For both ways, one may say it is given to you by Almighty God because it is innate or natural phenomena that is a place of birth or from birth place of parents or ancestors.

Nationality by descent or inheritance is normally automatic (natural) and not dependent on any action by the person or a State. Example American Samoa which is not one of the 55 States of USA is a land or territory of USA by default, so people born in American Samoa are automatically USA nationals at birth, but unless they have a USA citizen parent or born in USA, or granted Citizenship of USA, they are not USA citizens at birth nor Naturalized USA Citizens ( that is if not granted USA’s citizenship by Marriage or Naturalization), they are therefore termed as Non-Citizen USA Nationals They are allowed to hold USA passports, not require to pay tax to USA when leaving outside or incomes obtained made outside USA. They can live and work in the US without restriction, but they cannot vote or enjoy privileges of a USA citizen.

As stated the USA has two types of Nationals namely Citizen-Nationals, these are persons who are issued with USA Passport or qualified to hold USA Passport and are required to pay tax to USA and Non-Citizen Nationals also with USA Passport or qualified to hold it but do not pay tax to USA. But both can enter and exit USA with only passports of USA, hence making the Citizens--Nationals and Non-Citizens-National of USA to be covered by laws and protection of USA because of holding of the passport of USA.

In some Latin American countries, for example Mexico, nationality (Nacionalidad) is acquired at birth, but citizenship (Ciudadanía) is limited to those who have turned 18 or 21 years. So children under 18 years are non-citizen nationals of the country (Mexico). It should also be noted there are 5 classes of British nationals in addition to a British citizen, these including British Overseas Territories citizen, British Overseas citizen, British subject, British National (Overseas), and British protected persons. They all hold British passports but have different rights; some of them do not have right of abode in the UK.

So one may have multiple Nationality by birth (wherever you are born you are automatic national of that Country due to the right of the soil granted by God) or Nationality by descent or inheritance since one also gain one’s Nationality (by blood or DNA) from one’s parents. For example a woman who decides to rush to the USA to give birth to her baby as done of late by some of our Politicians and others, this may lead to the baby to acquire Dual or multiple Nationalities that of Ghana and USA etc.

A child born in USA is automatically a USA Citizen because citizenship is granted to him or her by the USA’ s Constitution and by the American Constitution he or she is a National of the State of USA where he was born and Citizen of federal state of USA. Hence, before the ruling of or interpretation by the Supreme Court of USA, some Americans were of the view that for a person to be qualified as a candidate for the President of USA or a President of USA, the candidate must be one who was born within USA to at least one parent who is a national of USA as a means to ensure full Allegiance. This is no more a requirement as explained below.

Due to the complex situation and terms of the USA Constitution/laws, the USA Supreme Court ruled by interpretation of the Constitution that a child born in any of the States of the United States of America, he or she must automatically be a National of that particular State say New York and he or she is automatically granted citizenship of USA by virtue of his valid USA birth Certificate because an amendment of the Constitution of USA ratified by Congress stipulates that ‘All persons born or naturalized in the USA and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the USA and of the State of USA wherein they reside in USA (federate State). That is how, senator Obama got qualified and was elected as the 44th President of USA.

Mr President, I am of the strong view that since, the USA immigration rules require that USA Citizen can only exit USA and enter USA with USA passport only, so upon critical thinking one may say this sounds like a nullification of the concept of dual citizenship in USA for instance if Paa Kwasi Ndoum entered USA with USA passport, the Ghanaian Embassy in USA cannot afford any consular help to Paa Kwasi Ndoum if he is to be drafted to go and fight in Ukraine etc because he holds USA Citizenship. An interesting story was when one Chinese National (a pure Chinese by birth and descent) was to face a case of corruption but when he produced a Passport or Citizenship of USA, Chinese Authorities stopped the prosecution and deported him immediately to USA.

It is also of interest to note that Section 349 of the USA Immigration and Nationality Act specifies several conditions under which a USA citizenship may be lost. These include, serving as an Officer in a foreign country’s military service, or serving in the armed forces of a country which is engaged in hostilities against the USA, working for a foreign government (in policy making political office) without permission and maybe when working outside USA and fail or refuse to pay tax from your income earned to the USA.

Hence, most Nations or States with the exception of China and some other nations adopted the term Citizenship and on the basis of constitutional provisions and set the criteria which determine who can be the Citizens of the country, so that it provides the country, rights over the person. Thus the State provides protection of the nation from other nations to the person. So for obvious technical reasons and for the avoidance of ambiguity, most Countries including Ghana opted for the term Citizenship in their Constitutions and Laws instead of the term Nationality.

Mr President, if you could please recollect, on 26 November 1985, some unusual incident happened which involved the trading of nationals from the same country that was Ghana by the PNDC and USA when the PNDC stripped the Citizenship of eight Ghanaian nationals then allegedly as suspected spies for USA and expelled them to USA, in exchange for a Ghanaian national by name Michael Soussoudis from serving a 20-year prison from a sentence imposed by a federal judge in Alexandria. The eight Ghanaian nationals were freed from detention and stripped of their citizenship (may be it was based on the suspended 1979 Constitution which gave the PNDC a clue of the possibility of renunciation of Citizenship and not Nationality which is natural) and deported or evacuate them to USA. This sounds like the story of the Chinese suspect for corruption and was immediately deported or expelled to USA when he showed a USA Passport as stated above.

So, it is normally said that the nationality, hence the DNA or origin of a person once acquired cannot be changed or taken back, while the citizenship of a person can be changed or taken back. Hence a citizen of the United Kingdom (same as a British citizen) may have a nationality of USA or Hong Kong or England (English) or Scotland (Scottish) or Wale (Welsh) or Ireland (Irish) or Ghana, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, South Africa etc. But by Administrative procedures and not by legal means, British citizens who are Nationals from Nigeria, Ghana, Hong Kong cannot or may not occupy certain Offices like the Prime Minster etc though they may be Members of the British Parliament. But their fellow citizens who are Nationals of Canada, USA, England (English) Scotland (Scottish), Wale (Welsh) Ireland (Irish) and Australia can easily occupy certain Offices like the Prime Minster in UK etc. So every Country has it rule for her pride and sovereignty.

Literally speaking, a person is a citizen of the country where he/she is born and one of the parent or grandparent is or was a Citizen of that Country but you can become a citizen of some other country or countries by applying for it or them and upon meeting the required criteria including the default rule of habitual residence beyond five years, ability to speak a local language, a before swearing an Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution/laws of the Country then approval may be granted. Hence Citizenship, is a legal term we acquire as result of legal procedures formalized/ legalized by swearing an Oath of Allegiance.

Nationality is acquired by birth of origin/heritance or DNA hence from God and normally connotes permanent allegiance birth, your allegiance to where you are born is from date, so unless going for some public policy making office etc you are not required to swear an Oath of Allegiance to Ghana to confirm that you are as a National. Citizenship is acquired by law from a Country and connotes personal acceptance to swear an oath of allegiance which in effect cancels the previous oaths since in theory or legally the wording of the Oath of Allegiance indicates allegiance to one State and the obedience of the Constitution and the laws of the last Country (check the Oath of Allegiance and common sense will tell that your last Oath of Allegiance basically renounced your previous Citizenship because you cannot serve two Masters at the same time). Hence for those who do not know this they are hereby educated that the framers of the 1992 Constitution use Oath of Allegiance and not Citizen in Article 94 (2) for the burden or complexity the risk associated with Dual Citizenship, and the reason that by your Oath of Allegiance you are simply saying that you cannot serve two masters at the same time.

This legal arrangement with a citizen and a State involved is akin to relationship in a wedded marriage, once you choose to do a wedding in a Court or by an authorized pastor, either spouse or both parties have the right to enjoy a peaceful marriage to the exclusion of others and when the other partner sees her spouse in bed with a trespasser he or she can take a legal action against both transgressors (the spouse and the other person for transgressing the Oath of the marriage). Hence you can only freely do so when you are legally issued with a divorce certificate. Hence renunciation of citizenship is therefore complete if and only if a certificate has been issued and 24 hours has elapsed upon receipt of the Renunciation Certificate, since you cannot be made to be a Stateless person.

Once again Nationality is an ethnic or racial concept involving DNA. On the other hand, citizenship is a legal or juristic concept involving paperwork. A person's nationality remains the same throughout his lifetime as it is inherited. However, a citizenship can be changed. As stated, all British Nationals including British National Overseas (BNO) are qualified to be issued with UK passports. But only British citizens have the automatic right to live and work in the UK.

In the Constitution of the USA, Nationality refers to the status of a person as belonging to one of the 55 States which are members of the Federal State of USA, whereas citizenship connotes Responsibilities and Privileges like the payment of taxes etc to USA, right to vote, service in the Military and the holding of a bundle of civic rights, generally including the right to live and work in USA / wherever you are located in the World you must pay tax to USA, once you undertake your Responsibilities including payment of tax to USA ready to serve in the USA Military you are a Citizen of a USA.

But, if you are a citizen of both the U.S.A and a country with mandatory military service, you can lose your U.SA. Citizenship under certain circumstances, such as if you serve as an Officer in a foreign military that is engaged in a war against the U.S.A. Also in the USA, depending on your career path, dual citizenship can be a disadvantage, especially, if you are seeking a position with the U.S government or your job requires access to information that is considered classified by the U.S. government, having dual citizenship may bar you from gaining the security clearance you need for this type of employment due to the use of subtle or delay tactics with long or complex bureaucratic or administrative process (obstacles or problems) instead of legal means due to the Supreme Court of USA rulings in favour of some Dual Citizenship holders.

Ex-President Obama and Ex-President JJ Rawlings had dual Nationality by blood or birthright and not by choice. They were qualified to be President of their respective Countries because they were qualified as citizens of their Countries. Flt Lt JJ Rawlings enrolled in Ghana Airforce as a Ghanaian and became the President of Ghana because he held only One Citizenship that is Allegiance to Ghana.

The champion of the noxious bill and his cohorts should do proper research to understand issues of the heritage relationship between Great Britain and USA. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of UK is a national of UK by descant and National of USA by birth, because he was born in New York hence of National of New York and had USA Citizen by birth but on becoming Prime Minister of UK he renounced the USA Citizenship including the reason to avoid paying tax to USA. . UK also shared heritage with Australia, hence one should not be surprised that Lady Julia Gillard from UK became the 27^th Prime Minister of Australia, UK also shared a heritage with Canada etc and lastly, UK also shared a heritage with South Africa.

Mr President I know you appreciate and acknowledge the huge financial contributions by Ghanaians in the Diaspora and it was this reason among others that part of the 1996 Amendment of the Constitution was amended to help them acquire paper to stay and work in their new environment but once they want to occupy Policy making offices or as IGP, CDS and Chiefs of the three Services of the Military etc, there must not be dual citizenship holders. The 1992 Constitution seeks to protect National Interest, you cannot serve two master at the same time hence the Sovereignty of Ghana is not negotiable nor for sale.

The proponents for the amendment must learn that Countries like India, Israel etc which introduced and exploited and are still exploiting and enjoying huge benefits of their Diaspora Bonds and other Foreign Direct Investment or revenue from Nationals living outside, do not joke with the issue of Allegiance, Loyalty, Patriotism or Sovereignty of their States or the supremacy of their Constitutions and laws, so there is no way India or Israel will allow persons with dual citizenship to become a member of a local Assembly or Council members and as such dual citizenship holders in Israel or India cannot or shall not be member of Parliament of Israel or India. They may only do so after renunciation of their Dual or Foreign Citizenships.

The Diaspora Bond is not a tax but an investment for them. So the current Constitutional provision must be upheld, preserved, defended and protected by you per your Oath of Office as President.

Mr President some School of thought say that since renunciation means the loss of the accrual benefits to be gained with dual citizenship, also the issue of the possibility one may not be elected and that since renunciation takes a long time to execute to its logical conclusion, they therefore advocate that we should retain Article 8 (2) of the Constitution but amend only Article 94 ((2) so that renunciation of Dual Citizenship is initiated when one is either cleared by the Electoral Commission to compete in the Election so that by the time he or she is elected he would have received the renunciation certificate or we should make it when one is duly elected as MP-elect. This last one maybe a problem since he or she must swear his or her Allegiance to the Constitution.

Their arguments according to is due to the huge contributions by Ghanaians in the Diaspora. It should be made known to all that, the economy of North Korea which has been on UN sanctions for a very long time is buoyant or resilient because of the returns and investments from North Koreans living outside that Country but North Korea for the sake of Allegiance, will not sell the sovereignty of North Korea by allowing Dual Citizenship holders of that Country to occupy some key appointments include President, Member of Parliament, the CDS, Service Commanders same as stipulated in the Constitution of Ghana. So Mr President do not sell the sovereignty of Ghana for monetary consideration. The Sovereignty of Ghana is not for sale nor did negotiable, must it be upheld protect, preserved, and defended by you.

Mr President, issues of espionage or selling of sensitive information, security intelligence or coming out with a Policy to favour another Country or a powerful Nation like USA using her strength or muscle to get her Citizens with Dual Citizenship to cooperate with them, since a US Citizens is bound by law to do so issue of disloyalty to the weaker and or nation cannot be over-emphasized. Also a Citizen with Dual Citizenship, always has a plan B (Contingency Plan) in his brief case or armpit to run away to his second Country when the Kitchen is too hot due a political conflict or a natural disaster or an economic debacle or problem or crime attributed to him. Or case of a conflict etc his Country especially, the USA may evacuate him or her and other Citizens of USA like what happened in Afghanistan. An eye opener is Hon Dr Paa Kwesi Ndoum, Mr Adjumanwura and his business in the USA paying tax to USA whether in Ghana or USA.

Mr President, as the Head of State, Head of Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ghana, you have sworn to uphold, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution or the Sovereignty of Ghana at all times, so, please do not succumb for monetary consideration or this unacceptable acts of the said member of Parliament to making an attempt to amend the Constitution of Ghana to allow Dual Citizenship holders to occupy Offices which both Article 8 (2) and Article 94 (2) of the 1992 Constitution bars them from doing so because you cannot serve two masters at the same time .

Mr President, since no one can serve two masters and be equally faithful to them at the same time. Hence a Dual Citizenship holders cannot be faithful to two Countries at the same time. Allegiance is to one Country and not dual or multiple Countries.

Mr President, we are in Country with short memories (with apology to Ex-President Mahama) the issue of the two Guantanamo Bay Detainees of Yemen decent, who are now Citizens of Ghana both by default rule of the long habitual residence and by the application of the 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees/the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, wherein members of the UN are required as far as possible to facilitate acquisition of citizenship by naturalization, hence they have so far acquired Citizenship by Naturalization granted by Ghana’s Parliament using Article 9 (Citizenship Laws by Parliament) of the 1992 Constitution

Mr President, I wish to end with a very thorny issue of immigration or interesting story as food for thought for you, your cabinet, the Hon Speaker, the Hon MPs and the general public especially the CSOs. These two Guantanamo Bay Detainees of Yemen decent who by default rule, they cannot be Stateless, so they are now citizens of Ghana which I am sure they were granted by the law that is Citizen by Parliament as in Article 9 (Citizenship Laws by Parliament) of the 1992. By the Constitutional provision as Naturalized Ghanaians they cannot be elected as the President of Ghana since they are not Citizens of Ghana by birth or natural Ghanaian or Ghanaian National by birth or by descent (by DNA) as Article 62(a) of the Constitution requires.

They cannot also be voted as Member of Parliament because they purely of Yemen descent or Nationals, hence they owe permanent allegiance to Yemen granted by God and because it is permanent it, does not require taking an oath because that is their mother Country by God or DNA. But their Children if any born in Ghana with a Ghanaian woman or National are automatically Ghanaians by Birth, because he or she was either born in the soil of Ghana (jus Soli) to Ghanaian DNA or National or by descent or acquired birthright citizenship by blood or DNA) to at least to one of her parents or grandparents who was or is a Ghanaian (Citizen of Ghana). This Child will be automatically be national of both Ghana and Yemen by birthright. Ghana Citizens by birth or National do not acquire their Citizenship by swearing an Oath. But if with Dual Citizenship he is a Citizen of Ghana qualified to stand and be elected as President or appointed as VP if and only if he denounces his Dual Citizenship in a Court by an Oath Allegiance or Affidavit to confirm as such. Hence need for swearing of Affidavit or need for taking the Oath of Allegiance to confirm Citizenship.

So, let say the Child happens to leverage his status and acquire Citizenship right from Afghanistan or Yemen and thus holding Dual Citizenship. So, Mr President, are the affected Hon MPs saying that he as both Dual Citizen of both Ghana and Yemen should be elected as Member of Parliament or the President of Ghana or appointed as the IGP or the CDS, that is if what some of the Parliamentarians are seeking goes through successfully to allow persons with Dual Citizenship to keep it whilst holding such high offices of policy making. Hence, the issue must be critically examined for them to come out with the control measures to cure any associated risk.

Mr President Growing up in Ghana, kids who had dual homes which were not very far from each other were found to be very truant and ideologically bad; because when they commit a crime, they normally run to the other house or Country just like how Hon Collins Dauda (my fellow Nabia of Navrongo Secondary) brother’s did by running to Burkina Faso when he was sometimes ago wanted in connection of a crime, which it was alleged he committed during one of our National Elections. So, Mr President to occupy a high office of Policy making or the IGP or CDS, one must declare one’s Allegiance to only Ghana so denunciation of the dual Citizenship must be done before one can stand for and become a Member of Parliament etc. So Article 8 (2) and Article 94 (2) must be retained.

So Mr President, once again please do not let monetary considerations to cloud your normal good thinking, Sir with your good work, do not destroy your good legacies as a show boy (Game Changer) of Ghana, a leader with determination, competency who sees obstacle as an indication he is on the right path and keeps to his words etc. So please, Sir do not sell the Sovereignty of Ghana by accepting this obnoxious bill to be made a law in Ghana, Please use your Veto Powers by not signing it into law

Yours Citizen, Sir.

Major Mohammed Bogobiri (Rtd)