{"id":43170,"date":"2026-06-09T18:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=43170"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:48:29","slug":"ghanas-investment-bill-introduces-citizenship-by-investment-in-a-single-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/ghanas-investment-bill-introduces-citizenship-by-investment-in-a-single-clause\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s Investment Bill Introduces Citizenship by Investment in a Single Clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ahmad Abbas<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Parliament has passed an investment bill that introduces citizenship by investment (CBI) into the country\u2019s investment legislation for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The clause does not create a program. It directs the Ministry of the Interior to draft the citizenship rules at a later date. Nothing in the bill sets a price, a qualifying investment, or a deadline.<br \/>\nWhat the bill actually says<\/p>\n<p>Section 39 of the Ghana Investment Promotion Authority Bill, 2026 stands under its own heading. In full, it reads: \u201cThe Ministry of the Interior shall, in consultation with the Authority and in accordance with the Constitution and any other applicable legislation, enact legislation relating to citizenship by investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is the entire clause. It lists no donation, no real estate option, no fund route, and no processing time.<\/p>\n<p>Design of any future program falls to the Interior Ministry, with the new Ghana Investment Promotion Authority (GIPA) in a consulting role. The Finance Ministry sponsored the bill, and its minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, signed the accompanying memorandum.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imidaily.com\/africa\/ghanas-investment-bill-introduces-citizenship-by-investment-in-a-single-clause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.imidaily.com\/africa\/ghanas-investment-bill-introduces-citizenship-by-investment-in-a-single-clause\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ahmad Abbas Ghana\u2019s Parliament has passed an investment bill that introduces citizenship by investment (CBI) into the country\u2019s investment legislation for the first time. The clause does not create a program. It directs the Ministry of the Interior to draft the citizenship rules at a later date. Nothing in the bill sets a price, [&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-43170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-ghana","type-news-articles","item-year-699","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43170","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=43170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43171,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43170\/revisions\/43171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}