{"id":1205182,"date":"2022-09-15T17:54:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/aisha-huang-is-an-npp-financier-ndc-alleges\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T17:54:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:54:29","slug":"aisha-huang-is-an-npp-financier-ndc-alleges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/aisha-huang-is-an-npp-financier-ndc-alleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Aisha Huang is an NPP financier &#8211; NDC alleges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Peter-Boamah-Otokunor.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is alleging that Aisha Huang is a financier of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n<p>According to Deputy General Secretary of the party, Dr. Peter Boamah Otukonor, the inability of the NPP government to take Aisha Huang head-on shows a level of complicity.<\/p>\n<p>This adds to the unending twists surrounding the illegal mining kingpin\u2019s controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Already, the manner in which the Chinese illegal miner departed Ghana following her arrest in 2017 has been a subject of controversy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"edR6JO8pg0o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Aisha Huang appears at the Accra Circuit Court\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/edR6JO8pg0o?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It was perceived that the illegal mining kingpin was deported according to earlier reports back in 2018 until her recapture some weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>When President Akufo-Addo on Monday said he is \u201cnot still sure whether she was in fact deported,\u201d a section of Ghanaians were taken aback.<\/p>\n<p>Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah clarified that the notorious Chinese illegal mining kingpin was repatriated from Ghana in December 2018 and not deported.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, prosecutors told an Accra High Court that the lady rather sneaked out of the country.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1344421234&#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\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But the NDC believes the \u2018galamsey\u2019 suspect has a card up her sleeve for which reason the government is seemingly struggling to find success in her prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peter Boamah Otukonor explained that \u201cIf she\u2019s not a financier of the NPP, I wonder how somebody who is supposed to have been deported, and the [former] Senior Minister\u2026 Osafo Maafo, say that she has been deported\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden the President is playing dumb and saying that he doesn\u2019t do that the woman has been deported, and I think is becoming one too many and becoming a worrying trend,\u201d he  explained on Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>He spoke on the sidelines of a press conference to announce the timetable to elect NDC\u2019s executives.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Peter Boamah Otukonor has also berated President Akuffo-Addo for saying he is unsure whether Aisha Huang was deported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have a sitting president, who always says that he is not aware of businesses that he himself has undertaken. The President has issued an executive instrument and he says he is aware. He has written letters of authority and he says he is not aware\u2026 corruption appears under him, everybody\u2019s talking about it, and he says he is not aware. Today, Aisha Huang, he is saying that he is not aware that Aisha Huang was deported. Very soon, he will say that he is not aware he is the president of this country.<\/p>\n<p>Since the re-emergence of Aisha Huang, there have been reports that she had allegedly engaged in the \u2018galamsey\u2019 menace even under the previous NDC government.<\/p>\n<p>But Dr Otukonor describes this as a shameful attempt to rope in the NDC into the current scandal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is alleging that Aisha Huang is a financier of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). According to Deputy General Secretary of the party, Dr. Peter Boamah Otukonor, the inability of the NPP government to take Aisha Huang head-on shows a level of complicity. This adds to the unending twists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205182","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\/1205182","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=1205182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}