{"id":1203745,"date":"2022-09-13T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/i-cannot-say-if-aisha-huang-was-escorted-on-her-way-to-china-oppong-nkrumah\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T21:09:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T21:09:14","slug":"i-cannot-say-if-aisha-huang-was-escorted-on-her-way-to-china-oppong-nkrumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/i-cannot-say-if-aisha-huang-was-escorted-on-her-way-to-china-oppong-nkrumah\/","title":{"rendered":"I cannot say if Aisha Huang was escorted on her way to China \u2013 Oppong Nkrumah"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said that he cannot confirm if \u2018galamsey\u2019 kingpin, Aisha Huang, was escorted while being repatriated to China four years ago.<\/p>\n

The Ofoase-Ayirebi lawmaker while confirming in an interview on Joy FM<\/strong>\u2018s Newsnight<\/strong> that Aisha Huang, was indeed repatriated to her country, said he currently \u201chas no brief\u201d which suggests that there was an escort on that journey.<\/p>\n

The MP, nonetheless, indicated that his brief gives credence to the fact that Aisha Huang was sent back to her country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the brief I have, those particulars are not available, I am not saying they are not available but in the brief I have, they are not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brief I have gives me details of the flight, when it left Accra, when it got to its destination through transit to China with her aboard. That is the brief I have, that is the brief I will share with you and you can validate\u2026in the brief I have, I do not have answers to questions about, was she escorted? How many people escorted her?,\u201d he told Evans Mensah on Newsnight<\/strong>, Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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On September 12, 2022, the Ranking Member on Foreign Affairs Committee in Parliament alleged that \u2018galamsey\u2019 kingpin, Aisha Huang had no escort when she was deported in 2018.<\/p>\n

Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said Aisha Huang\u2019s deportation was only a \u201cshambolic attempt of a deportation\u201d and a \u201ccharade\u201d by the government.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on\u00a0Top Story,<\/strong>\u00a0Monday, he noted that due to the awkward manner of Aisha Huang\u2019s deportation, the \u2018galamsey\u2019 kingpin could have absconded during her transit to China.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole charade of deportation has gone down as the most shambolic attempted deportation ever in world affairs. Do you know that this deportation took place without an escort? There was no escort\u2026She could have really absconded when they transited in Addis Ababa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, speaking in the same interview, Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah also clarified President Akufo-Addo\u2019s comment about his uncertainty regarding how \u2018galamsey\u2019 kingpin, Aisha Huang, exited the country in 2018.<\/p>\n

He said the President\u2019s comment was a direct response to the particular question he was asked.<\/p>\n

\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

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\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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said that he cannot confirm if \u2018galamsey\u2019 kingpin, Aisha Huang, was escorted while being repatriated to China four years ago. The Ofoase-Ayirebi lawmaker while confirming in an interview on Joy FM\u2018s Newsnight that Aisha Huang, was indeed repatriated to her country, said he currently \u201chas no brief\u201d which suggests […]<\/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-1203745","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\/1203745","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=1203745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}