{"id":1203725,"date":"2022-09-13T20:32:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/oppong-nkrumah-clarifies-akufo-addos-comment-on-aisha-huangs-exit\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T20:32:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:32:35","slug":"oppong-nkrumah-clarifies-akufo-addos-comment-on-aisha-huangs-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/oppong-nkrumah-clarifies-akufo-addos-comment-on-aisha-huangs-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppong Nkrumah clarifies Akufo-Addo&#8217;s comment on Aisha Huang\u2019s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Kojo-Oppong-Nkrumah-1024x809.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has clarified President Akufo-Addo\u2019s comment about his uncertainty regarding how \u2018galamsey\u2019 kingpin, Aisha Huang, exited the country in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo in an interview on a Ho-based radio station on Monday, as part of his tour of the Volta Region said he is not sure about how Aisha Huang left the country.<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut whichever way it is, she\u2019s become the sort of nickname for all that galamsey represents\u201d, the President said.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo has since been severely criticised for his comment which has been described, among others, as a \u201cmockery\u201d of the security architecture.<\/p>\n<p>But the Information Minister in an interview on <strong>Newsnight<\/strong> on <strong>Joy FM<\/strong>, Tuesday, said the President\u2019s comment was a direct response to the particular question he was asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President was not speaking in a vacuum. There was a question about deportation and the President proceeded to respond that he is not too sure whether it is about deportation or whether she fled but then the substantive thing is this and then he proceeded to provide the substantive answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have heard several commentators suggest that there should have been more clarity in the President\u2019s words etc. I mean in a democracy I am sure that we can always raise questions about the choice of words,\u201d he explained on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ofoase-Ayirebi MP also confirmed that Aisha Huang exited the country on a repatriation notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is on the minds of many people is indeed, did this person exit the Ghanaian jurisdiction? That is what is on the minds of many people. That whether the instrument used was repatriation or a deportation. Did she exit the jurisdiction?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1343308537&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think the answer to that is yes, she exited the jurisdiction on the wishes of the government and I have sighted the repatriation notice and I have also sighted the flight details that were used for that repatriation exercise,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Security Analyst, Dr. Ishmael Norman has described the President\u2019s comment as a mockery of the national security architecture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt tells you that national security is wack in terms of preparedness against potential threat at our borders and as security people, we need to impress upon the President that we need to know more. Because to tell you the truth, they are making a mockery of the Ghana Army, the Police, the Immigration, of Customs and all the security agencies because of what the President just said today. No control system is in place so people can come and go when they want,\u201d he said on Top Story, Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has clarified President Akufo-Addo\u2019s comment about his uncertainty regarding how \u2018galamsey\u2019 kingpin, Aisha Huang, exited the country in 2018. President Akufo-Addo in an interview on a Ho-based radio station on Monday, as part of his tour of the Volta Region said he is not sure about how Aisha Huang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203725","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=1203725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}