{"id":40362,"date":"2024-04-24T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=40362"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:12:58","slug":"ghana-persons-with-dual-citizenship-can-be-appointed-as-chief-justice-chief-directors-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/ghana-persons-with-dual-citizenship-can-be-appointed-as-chief-justice-chief-directors-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Persons with dual citizenship can be appointed as Chief Justice, Chief Directors &#8211; Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Justice Agbenorsi<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has declared as unconstitutional, provisions of the Citizenship Act, 2000 (ACT 581) which prohibits a person with dual citizenship from becoming a Chief Justice, Commissioner, Value Added Tax Service, Director-General, Prisons Service, Chief Fire Officer, Chief Director of a Ministry or a rank of Colonel in the army, or other security services.<\/p>\n<p>In a 6-1 majority decision, the court declared Section 16(2)(a) and 16(2)(h)-(l) of the Citizenship Act 2000 (Act 591)<\/p>\n<p>It said the sections breached Article 289(2) of the 1992 Constitution, which states that the constitution shall not be amended or altered by an Act of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Bright Okyere-Adjekum, a legal practitioner, filed the suit at the apex court.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphic.com.gh\/news\/general-news\/persons-with-dual-citizenship-can-be-appointed-as-chief-justice-chief-directors-supreme-court.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.graphic.com.gh\/news\/general-news\/persons-with-dual-citizenship-can-be-appointed-as-chief-justice-chief-directors-supreme-court.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Justice Agbenorsi The Supreme Court has declared as unconstitutional, provisions of the Citizenship Act, 2000 (ACT 581) which prohibits a person with dual citizenship from becoming a Chief Justice, Commissioner, Value Added Tax Service, Director-General, Prisons Service, Chief Fire Officer, Chief Director of a Ministry or a rank of Colonel in the army, or [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-ghana","type-news-articles","item-year-695","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40362","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=40362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40365,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40362\/revisions\/40365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}