{"id":1204142,"date":"2022-09-14T11:48:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/aisha-huang-three-others-denied-bail\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T11:48:53","slug":"aisha-huang-three-others-denied-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/aisha-huang-three-others-denied-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"Aisha Huang, three others denied bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Accra Circuit Court 9 has denied galamsey queen, Aisha Huang, bail.<\/p>\n<p>The notorious illegal miner is standing trial with three other Chinese nationals; Jong Li Hua, Huang Jei and Huaid Hai Hun, all charged with mining without a valid license and engaging in the sale and purchase of minerals without a permit.<\/p>\n<p>The Prosecution said it needed time to finish off the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>But defense lawyer, Nkrabea Effah Dartey, wondered what investigations were left to be done.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded the court that the accused persons had already been remanded for 14 days and questioned what more investigation was left to be concretized.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-880768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Aisha-Huang-at-Accra-High-Court-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"486\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>He also accused the Attorney General, Godfred Dame, of using the Bar Conference to solicit the judiciary\u2019s cooperation for the successful prosecution of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Nkrabea Effah Dartey wondered why the leader of the Ghanaian Bar would so prejudice the case.<\/p>\n<p>The retired Military Captain and former NPP MP for Berekum prayed the Court not to give room for public speculation of influence of the Executive on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>He told the court that denying bail would play out in the media as the court bending to the whims of President Nana Akufo-Addo and his Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame.<\/p>\n<p>The court presided over by His Honour Samuel Bright Appiah, however, reasoned that the matter had become an issue of public interest at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, His Honour remanded them back into custody to reappear on September 27, 2022<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Circuit Court 9 has denied galamsey queen, Aisha Huang, bail. The notorious illegal miner is standing trial with three other Chinese nationals; Jong Li Hua, Huang Jei and Huaid Hai Hun, all charged with mining without a valid license and engaging in the sale and purchase of minerals without a permit. The Prosecution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204142","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\/1204142","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=1204142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}