{"id":32891,"date":"2019-07-04T16:26:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T16:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=32891"},"modified":"2021-08-18T16:29:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T16:29:45","slug":"government-of-ghana-considers-implementing-a-bill-which-will-allow-dual-citizens-to-hold-public-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/government-of-ghana-considers-implementing-a-bill-which-will-allow-dual-citizens-to-hold-public-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Government of Ghana considers implementing a bill which will allow dual citizens to hold public office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlinda Entsie<\/p>\n<p>The government of Ghana says it will soon lay a bill before Parliament that allows persons with dual citizenship to hold public office in the country. The bill has been described as the Diaspora Engagement Policy Bill and is being worked on by the Office of Diaspora Affairs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ringCommonDetail ringBlockType-paragraph \">\n<p>President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made the revelation on Wednesday, June 3, 2019, while opening the Ghana Diaspora Celebration and Third Homecoming Summit in Accra.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ringCommonDetail ringBlockType-paragraph \">\n<p>According to him, <em>\u201cThe question of the political rights of dual citizens is a matter for Parliament and an opportunity is going to be provided soon Parliament to address this issue.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulse.com.gh\/bi\/strategy\/government-of-ghana-considers-implementing-a-bill-which-will-allow-dual-citizens-to\/ewrq6td\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.pulse.com.gh\/bi\/strategy\/government-of-ghana-considers-implementing-a-bill-which-will-allow-dual-citizens-to\/ewrq6td<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berlinda Entsie The government of Ghana says it will soon lay a bill before Parliament that allows persons with dual citizenship to hold public office in the country. The bill has been described as the Diaspora Engagement Policy Bill and is being worked on by the Office of Diaspora Affairs. President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-ghana","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-dual-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32894,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32891\/revisions\/32894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}