The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has called on residents living along the Aflao border to resist any attempts by security personnel to confiscate their Ghana Cards.
This comes in response to reports that officers of the Ghana Immigration Service at the border are seizing Ghana Cards from residents.
During an address in Aflao, the NDC’s flagbearer charged the residents to stand firm against such actions, urging them not to allow themselves to be intimidated by these alleged practices.
“Nobody has a right to collect your Ghana card. Nobody, not immigration, not police, nobody. And so don’t surrender your Ghana card to anybody.
“It is the National Identification Authority that has the right to withdraw your card. Once it has been issued, if somebody thinks you are not a citizen, he has to go to the National Identification Authority and get a certificate of withdrawal of your card before he can come and take your card from you.
“You cannot meet a person on the street and know whether he is Ghanaian or any other thing by his face.”