A 37-year-old Nigerian, Doris Okeke, has been convicted for attempting to acquire Ghana Card.
The offender was fined 200 penalty units, the equivalent of GH2,400, by the Tamale District Magistrate Court presided over by Magistrate Amadu Issifu,
The offender was fined 200 penalty units, the equivalent of GH2,400, by the Tamale District Magistrate Court presided over by Magistrate Amadu Issifu, or served 18 months in jail in default for using a fictitious identity.
She paid the money to avoid incarceration after pleading guilty to all four counts of illegally dwelling in the nation, illegally working in Ghana, acquiring a self ID card, and attempting to obtain a Ghana ID card.
She was arrested when the Northern Regional Office of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) received a tip concerning her illegal activities.
Doris Okeke used the name Doris Dubik as her Ghanaian identity in order to obtain a voter's ID card prior to the 2020 elections, apply for a Ghana Card, and secure admission as a student at Tamale Technical University (TTU).
The court ordered her to submit all of her documents to the GIS so that they could be presented to registration officials in order for her information to be removed from the National Identification Authority's system.
Assistant Inspector Christian Kobla Kekeli Zilevu, GIS's Northern Regional Public Relations Officer, stated that the GIS received a report on the convict's activities and moved in to pick her up at the TTU Campus on March 14 and that upon interrogation, she confirmed being a Nigerian and residing in Ghana since 2015.
He disclosed that the convict's husband, Oliver Okeke, a Nigerian, obtained the Ghana voter's ID.
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