{"id":1204705,"date":"2022-09-15T06:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/call-for-probe-into-aisha-huang-saga-not-to-score-political-points\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T06:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T06:30:14","slug":"call-for-probe-into-aisha-huang-saga-not-to-score-political-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/call-for-probe-into-aisha-huang-saga-not-to-score-political-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for probe into Aisha Huang saga not to score political points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said the call for an independent probe into the Aisha Huang saga is not an attempt to score political points.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <em><strong>The Point of View\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>on <em><strong>Citi TV<\/strong><\/em>, Mr. Ablakwa said, \u201cwhen I call for a probe, I am not hoping that only my political opponents will be caught.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there are NDC elements who even are still serving as Members of Parliament with us and there\u2019s proof to expose them so that we will be safe so that we can live, why not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ablakwa added that \u201cI am not going to waste my time trying to defend anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis matter for me goes beyond cheap partisan points scoring,\u201d said the MP.<\/p>\n<p>Aisha Huang and three others were denied bail after the court hearing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>She is standing trial with three other Chinese nationals; Jong Li Hua, Huang Jei and Huaid Hai Hun.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Since Aisha Huang was arrested earlier in September, there has been controversy about how she left Ghana and how she ended back in the country.<\/p>\n<p>She was said to have been repatriated in 2018, but Mr. Ablakwa <strong>claimed Aisha Huang was not escorted<\/strong>\u00a0as was required.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo later said <strong>he was unsure whether Aisha Huang was deported from Ghana in 2018 or fled<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This prompted the government to subsequently share documents indicating she was given a notice of repatriation in December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Minister also said definitely that\u00a0<strong>Aisha Huang had been repatriated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But in court on Wednesday, police officials prosecuting the case said she sneaked out of the country and sneaked back.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said the call for an independent probe into the Aisha Huang saga is not an attempt to score political points. Speaking on The Point of View\u00a0on Citi TV, Mr. Ablakwa said, \u201cwhen I call for a probe, I am not hoping that only my political opponents will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204705","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\/1204705","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=1204705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}