A Sekondi High Court managed by Equity Dr. Richmond Osei Hwere has excused a political decision request trying to challenge the qualification of the Public Popularity based Congress (NDC) Individual from Parliament (MP) for Jomoro in the Western Locale Dorcas Affo-Toffey.
Making bountiful reference from Article 48 of the Ivorian Identity Code, the directing adjudicator decided that the principal respondent Dorcas Affo-Toffey was qualified to challenge as need might have arisen for her to deny and furthermore lose her Ivorian citizenship.
An occupant of Nuba-Mpataba in the Jomoro Locale of the Western District, Joshua Emuah Kofie, recorded a writ at the Sekondi High Court, testing Public Majority rule Congress (NDC) Individual from Parliament's qualification to partake and challenge decisions in Ghana.
As per the candidate, the MP was not able to challenge as individuals' agent in the country's official gathering as she held double citizenship.
He, in this manner, among different reliefs, supplicated the court to pronounce her political decision as the MP for the Jomoro Voting public as invalid and void and of no impact at all as it abuses the 1992 Constitution.
Yet, with all due respect, Dorcas Affo-Toffey conceded that she was an Ivorian resident yet found a way satisfactory ways to lose and repudiate her Ivorian citizenship before she recorded her selection to challenge the December 2020 Parliamentary Races in the Jomoro Body electorate.
She depended on the strength of a letter she kept in touch with the Ivorian Equity Clergyman on January 24, 2019 as proof of her renunciation and loss of her Ivorian resident.
A specialist observer from Ivory Coast, Ivorian rehearsing legal advisor Dadje Ange Rodrigue, in his observer articulation, let the court know that under Article 48 of the Ivorian Identity Code, an Ivorian will consequently lose their citizenship quickly the person takes on another ethnicity. In this occurrence, on the grounds that Dorcas Afo Toffey had proactively taken on a Ghanaian character, she consequently lost her Ivorian citizenship.
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