politicsghana.com

Neither K.T. Hammond nor the Ghana army can determine who a Ghanaian citizen is, law professor Kwaku Asare has said, describing as “frightening and deeply disturbing”, the Adansi Asokwa lawmaker’s comment that the military has influx the Ketu South municipality so as to stop Togolese nationals there from taking part in the forthcoming voter registration exercise of Ghana’s Electoral Commission.

Locals in the region, as well as the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its Minority Volta Caucus in Parliament, have condemned the military influx.

Check This Out:  (VIDEO) Military Intimidation: We shall fire no guns nor throw no stones but shall live to read your Obituaries – Volta Chiefs warn

Speaking to the media on the issue, Mr Hammond explained that: “The Togolese and the Voltarians – when I talk about Voltarians, the Volta Region – remember the history … basically the same tribe, so, they walk into [Ghana] but they are not Ghanaians”.

“When they walk in there, they can do whatever they [want], so, I guess that is the reason for that [military influx]”.

“There is a classic example”, he recalled. “You remember 2008, the second round; we had so much – 100,000 or so votes leading Prof Mills at the time of the second round. In the next round, one constituency, Ketu South, cleared all the [votes] we had. Where did they come from?” he asked.

“You see, so, everybody from wherever they came to vote, so, this is what the whole thing is about; 35,000 people at the time voted; the next one, everybody on earth voted there; where were they coming from?

“So, this is the whole issue: we want there to be sanity”, he added, noting: “The military is there to make sure that you vote if you are a Ghanaian, you vote if you have the constitutional right to vote; that’s all there is to it”, he said.

Check This Out:  How Kelvin Taylor warned Voltarians about a Possible Release of Thugs by Gov’t to disrupt activities in the Region

“They [military personnel] are not electoral officers, but they are a peacekeeping force … So, the soldiers, the police and immigration are just maintaining the peace, making sure there’s no infiltration. I mean, come on, let’s be serious; what’s the point in going through all that we’ve gone through, to the Supreme Court and all that then allow a porous border for people to come through and then infiltrate the register again? We would have been back to where we started”.

The EC voter registration exercise starts from the end of June.

The resultant register will replace the existing one.

Ghana’s Supreme Court recently decided that the Ghana card and passport will be the only two breeder documents used in compiling the register.

Commenting on the matter, Prof Asare, popularly known as Kwaku Azar, wrote on social media thus:

“We are being told by K. T. Hammond that “the military is at the Aflao border to make sure you vote if you are a Ghanaian and if you have the constitutional right to vote. That’s all there is. They are not electoral officers but they are peacekeeping forces. They are keeping the peace.”

I repeat;

Citizenship is a question of law. Neither K.T. Hammond, the military nor anyone can decide who is or who is not a citizen of Ghana.

I have cited the case of Bonito Olympio whose father was Sylvanus Olympio, a former President of Togo.

The NLC attempted to deport him to Togo only for the then Justice Wiredu to hold that both Bonito and Sylvanus are Ghanaians by descent.

Comity requires that if nobody is questioning Mr. Hammond’s citizenship then he, too, should not be questioning the citizenship of others.

I find his statement and attitude frightening and deeply disturbing. I reject it in its entirety.

I also call on the military brass not to allow its men and women to be used as citizenship inspectors!!

We are a peaceful nation because we live in peace. We must keep it that way.

128/1820 is a bona fide scam and sham.

Da Yie!”

Watch Video Below:

Source: Class FM

Adansi Asokwa MP K. T. Hammond has said the sudden influx of soldiers in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region is purposely to prevent neighbouring Togolese from crossing over into Ghana to take part in the Electoral Commission’s upcoming voter registration exercise.

Locals in the region, as well as the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its Minority Volta Caucus in Parliament, have condemned the military influx of the region.

Speaking to the media on the issue, Mr Hammond explained that: “The Togolese and the Voltarians – when I talk about Voltarians, the Volta Region – remember the history … basically the same tribe, so, they walk into [Ghana] but they are not Ghanaians”.

“When they walk in there, they can do whatever they [want], so, I guess that is the reason for that [military influx]”.

“There is a classic example”, he recalled. “You remember 2008, the second round; we had so much – 100,000 or so votes leading Prof Mills at the time of the second round. In the next round, one constituency, Ketu South, cleared all the [votes] we had. Where did they come from?” he asked.

Check This Out:  (VIDEO) Military Intimidation: We shall fire no guns nor throw no stones but shall live to read your Obituaries – Volta Chiefs warn

“You see, so, everybody from wherever they came to vote, so, this is what the whole thing is about; 35,000 people at the time voted; the next one, everybody on earth voted there; where were they coming from?

“So, this is the whole issue: we want there to be sanity”, he added, noting: “The military is there to make sure that you vote if you are a Ghanaian, you vote if you have the constitutional right to vote; that’s all there is to it”, he said.

“They [military personnel] are not electoral officers, but they are a peacekeeping force … So, the soldiers, the police and immigration are just maintaining the peace, making sure there’s no infiltration. I mean, come on, let’s be serious; what’s the point in going through all that we’ve gone through, to the Supreme Court and all that then allow a porous border for people to come through and then infiltrate the register again? We would have been back to where we started”.

Check This Out:  How Kelvin Taylor warned Voltarians about a Possible Release of Thugs by Gov’t to disrupt activities in the Region

The EC voter registration exercise starts from the end of June.

The resultant register will replace the existing one.

Ghana’s Supreme Court recently decided that the Ghana card and passport will be the only two breeder documents used in compiling the register.

Watch Video Below:

Source: Class FM

Investigative Journalist, Kevin Taylor has revealed that President Akufo-Addo has promised himself and the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to reduce Volta Region into a slave region hence once again warning the people of the region to sit up.

According to him, President Akufo-Addo believes the people of the Volta Region do not deserve to be treated like Ghanaians.

Mr. Taylor’s latest release of his With All Deu Respect show, “the plan of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and this NPP government lead by the Akyem Mafia for the people of Volta Region especially Ketu South is not a good one.”

If readers can recall, about two weeks ago, on With All Due Respect, Mr. Taylor indicated that the thugs who were allegedly recruited by the National Security will be sent to the Volta Region to cause mayhem including burning down houses under the disguise as members of the Western Togoland secessionist groups.

He stated that the plot is to put fear and panic among people of the Volta Regions whiles government takes steps to close down the Togo-Ghana boarders citing intrusion of possible mercenaries from Togo.

The grand agenda according to Mr Taylor is to scare voters in the region in December 2020.

His last two weeks revelation was followed a huge public outcry in the Volta Region of Ghana over reports of deployment of heavy security including armed soldiers, police, immigration officials at the various borders ahead of the upcoming new voters’ registration exercise which many have seen as unusual and intimidating.

Check This Out: New Voter Register: Voltarians are not Ghanaians and shall not be allowed to Register – K.T Hammond (VIDEO)

A member of Parliament for Adansi in the Ashanti Region in an interview on JoyNews said the deployment is to help police the borders to present people who are not Ghanaians but speak the same Ewe language with the people of the Region from entering the country during the voters’ registration and voting day.

In another interview with the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery on the same network, JoyNews, he attributed the heavy security presence in the region to policing the borders to ensure the adherence of the COVID-19 preventive protocols and directives.

Listen to Mr. Taylor’s message for the people of the Volta Region

A release of some National Security operatives to the Volta Region ahead of the New Voter Registration Exercise has come to confirm an allegation by a US-Ghana Journalist, and Host of Social Media programme “With All Respect”, Mr Kevin Taylor that some thugs shall be sent into the Volta Region in November to cause mayhem ahead of the December 2020 election.

Mr. Kevin Taylor indicated that the thugs who were allegedly recruited by the National Security will be sent to the Volta Region to cause mayhem including burning down houses under the disguise as members of the Western Togoland secessionist groups.

Currently. some National Security operatives have been deployed to the Volta Region to supposedly prevent Voltarians and Togolese from registering for the New Ghana Card, according to The Member of Parliament Adansi Asokwa Constituency, Hon Kobina Tahir Hammond.

Addressing the Media on the heavy military deplored to the borders captured by Ghanapoliticsonline.com specifically Volta Region, he said that there is history to back his assertions.

According to him, both Voltarians and Togolese are the same tribe so they both work in and out of the two territories but history shows that they are not Ghanaians.

Africa Centre for Peace Building call for probe

The Africa Centre for Peace Building (Peace Centre) is calling on the security agencies in Ghana to step up the game and investigate allegations of an intended deployment of some thugs into the Volta Region in November to cause mayhem ahead of the December 2020 election.

“The allegation which was made in one of the videos of the US-based journalist and Host of Social Media programme “With All Respect”, Mr. Kevin Taylor indicated that the thugs who were allegedly recruited by the National Security will be sent to the Volta Region to cause mayhem including burning down houses under the disguise as members of the Western Togoland secessionist groups.

The allegation which was made in one of the videos of the US-based journalist and Host of Social Media programme “With All Respect”, Mr. Kevin Taylor indicated that the thugs who were allegedly recruited by the National Security will be sent to the Volta Region to cause mayhem including burning down houses under the disguise as members of the Western Togoland secessionist groups.” – Peace Centre’s Director of Security and Research, Mr. David Jawara Banye said in a press statement.

According to Mr. Banye, though the Africa Centre for Peace Building is “not giving any credence to these allegations call on the State Security agencies and especially the Volta Regional Security Council to as a matter of urgency institute thorough investigations into this issue to assure the good people of the Region and Ghana as a whole that their peace and security is in no way threatened before, during and after the December 2020 elections”

“As we strongly call of the state to act swiftly on this, some (agent provocateurs and war entrepreneurs) could take advantage of these allegations cause confusion in that part of the country for their parochial interest.” – He added

Source: PoliticsGhana.com