{"id":1203515,"date":"2022-09-13T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/is-akufo-addo-contradicting-himself-on-aisha-huangs-deportation\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T15:36:24","slug":"is-akufo-addo-contradicting-himself-on-aisha-huangs-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/is-akufo-addo-contradicting-himself-on-aisha-huangs-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Akufo-Addo Contradicting Himself On Aisha Huang&#8217;s Deportation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>From last week, the name Aisha Huang, has become a chewing stick for Ghanaians. She is a Chinese galamsey Kingpin\u00a0who has re-arrested. News has it that, she managed to sneak back to Ghana to continue her galamsey activities, despite been deported in 2018. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/84d4084059874b728a6e16dd8f24bc3c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Following that, many Ghanaians have pointed accusing fingers on Ghana leaders on how she was able to sneak back into the country. With her saga, President Akufo-Addo added his voice to the sentiments expressed by Ghanaians. Yet it seems like his  today, differs from what he said three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Akufo-Addo Utterances On Aisha Huang Arrest Today<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he is in doubt whether Chinese illegal miner Aisha Huang was deported from Ghana in 2018 as he has no confirmation on the actions taken by state actors.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.6chcdn.feednews.com\/assets\/v2\/7ebbc6d5b03f4507aebb69610210bede?quality=uhq&#038;resize=720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Stone City FM, the President who expressed uncertainty about the action taken by his appointees assured of a commitment to prosecute the illegal miner following her re-arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not still sure whether she was in fact deported, or whether she fled the country the first time and has now come back. There still seems to be some uncertainty about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Akufo-Addo Utterances On Aisha Huang&#8217;s Deportation Three Years Ago; September 20, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo said that, government\u2019s decision to deport Chinese national, Aisha Huang after her reported involvement in illegal mining was a mistake.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3642428034d1429e853b33fc1e259a46\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the decision to deport Aisha Huang in hindsight was a mistake and that is why that process and procedure is being stopped,\u201d he said at a forum at Princeton University during his visit to the United States of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aisha Huang gained some notoriety after her arrest in May 2017 and was tagged as the Galamsey Queen.<\/p>\n<p>During the prosecution, the government controversially discontinued the case and deported her in December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>More controversy followed when the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo, at a town hall meeting in the US suggested that Aisha Huang did not face the full rigours of the law for diplomatic reasons.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/e99d5bf08b3a4ec2bcb94959eccd1d6c\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Contradiction <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The same President Akufo-Addo on 20th September 2019 , when he was interviewed outside the shores of Ghana admitted, that the decision to have deported Aisha Huang (GALAMSEY champion) on hindsight was a MISTAKE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The same President, after almost 3 years is saying he&#8217;s not sure that Aisha Huang was deported. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Is the President really in charge? Or the people around him didn&#8217;t act on the orders to deport her.<\/p>\n<p>Did President Akufo-Addo forget what he said three years ago on the same issue?<\/p>\n<p>Now that the President has given full backing to the Attorney General (AG) to persecute her, won&#8217;t it be another mistake? Won&#8217;t it soil the diplomatic relations between Ghana and China? <\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAisha<br \/>\nAisha Huang<br \/>\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nChinese<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From last week, the name Aisha Huang, has become a chewing stick for Ghanaians. She is a Chinese galamsey Kingpin\u00a0who has re-arrested. News has it that, she managed to sneak back to Ghana to continue her galamsey activities, despite been deported in 2018. Following that, many Ghanaians have pointed accusing fingers on Ghana leaders on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[13415,648,25643,1657,25293],"class_list":["post-1203515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-aisha","tag-akufoaddo","tag-contradicting","tag-deportation","tag-huangs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}