Don't surrender your Ghana card to anybody - Mahama tells Aflao residents

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has urged residents dwelling along the Aflao border to resist any attempts by security forces to confiscate their Ghana Cards.

This is in reaction to complaints that Ghana Immigration Service agents at the border are taking Ghana cards from citizens.

During a rally in Aflao, the NDC's flagbearer urged residents stand up against such measures and not be frightened by the alleged abuses.

"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," he stated.