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Nkrabeah Effah Dartey, the lawyer for Aisha Huang, the Chinese national accused of engaging in illegal mining, says his client is married to a Ghanaian businessman.<\/p>\n
Nkrabeah Effah Dartey disclosed this on Eyewitness News.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI know she is married to a Ghanaian. I know this because of her Ghanaian husband, a businessman in Kumasi and a master\u2019s degree holder from a Chinese University. He came to my office to engage me as a lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n Aisha Huang is currently standing trial with three other Chinese nationals; Jong Li Hua, Huang Jei and Huaid Hai Hun.<\/p>\n They have all been charged with mining without a valid license and engaging in the sale and purchase of minerals without a permit.<\/p>\n Since Aisha Huang was arrested earlier in September, there has been controversy about how she left Ghana and how she ended up back in the country.<\/p>\n The initial reporting on the case was that she had been deported in 2018 after filing a nolle prosequi to discontinue an earlier case against her.<\/p>\n But North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa,\u00a0claimed\u00a0Aisha Huang was not escorted<\/strong> during her \u201csupposed deportation\u201d as was required.<\/p>\n In the days after Mr. Ablakwa\u2019s comments, President Akufo-Addo also said\u00a0he was unsure whether Aisha Huang was deported from Ghana in 2018 or fled<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This prompted the government to share documents indicating she was given a notice of repatriation in December 2018.<\/p>\n The Information Minister also said definitely that\u00a0Aisha Huang had been repatriated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Mr. Dartey disputed suggestions that Aisha Huang fled out of Ghana, saying officials were making such claims to \u201cshy away from what really happened.\u201d<\/p>\n He maintained that his client is not guilty of the charges levelled against her.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nkrabeah Effah Dartey, the lawyer for Aisha Huang, the Chinese national accused of engaging in illegal mining, says his client is married to a Ghanaian businessman. Nkrabeah Effah Dartey disclosed this on Eyewitness News. \u201cI know she is married to a Ghanaian. I know this because of her Ghanaian husband, a businessman in Kumasi and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204498","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\/1204498","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=1204498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}