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Ghana Cannot Continue to Love the Diaspora’s Money and Fear Its Voice
Article 8(1) of the 1992 Constitution, as amended by the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana (Amendment) Act, 1996, Act 527, expressly provides that a citizen of Ghana may hold the citizenship of another country in addition to Ghanaian citizenship.
It is fundamentally a question about citizenship and what it means to be Ghanaian in a world in which millions of our people live, work and raise families abroad while remaining deeply connected to Ghana.
How can our Constitution recognise a person as a Ghanaian citizen while treating the lawful possession of another nationality as sufficient reason to exclude that person from important aspects of Ghana’s political life?
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