{"id":3502,"date":"2019-09-21T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2019-09-21T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T12:17:08","slug":"chinese-galamsey-queens-deportation-was-a-mistake-prez-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/chinese-galamsey-queens-deportation-was-a-mistake-prez-akufo-addo","title":{"rendered":"Chinese galamsey queen’s deportation was a mistake \u2013 Prez Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The deportation of a Chinese illegal mining \u2018queen\u2019 Aisha Huang \u201cwas a mistake\u201d.\u00a0President Nana Akufo-Addo has conceded.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to him, the cumbersome processes and the \u201cproblems involved in prosecuting\u201d informed the decision to let Huang off the hook and send her home in December 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026but on the hindsight\u2026I think it was a mistake,\u201d Mr. Akufo-Addo said at Princeton University in the USA.<\/p>\n

Media reports said Aisha Huang was untouchable and had links to the top; credit to her survival in the illegal mining business for so long.<\/p>\n

The move by the chief state attorney, Gloria Akuffo to discontinue her prosecution, therefore, received widespread criticism, especially since\u00a0Huang has evaded arrest for years.<\/p>\n

However, the government justified her deportation fiercely.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a diaspora Townhall Meeting, Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo said a Chinese company, Sinohydro was \u201chelping develop the infrastructure system in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aisha Huang is masterminded several illegal mining sites in Ghana<\/p>\n

“So, when there are these kinds of arrangements, there are other things behind the scenes. Putting that lady [Aisha] in jail in Ghana is not going to solve your economic problems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Attorney General\u2019s actions were also defended as a discretionary power \u2013 to discontinue a prosecution without explanation — which she used.<\/p>\n

Osafo-Maafo was widely condemned for his comments which the opposition NDC said undermined the sovereignty of Ghana,\u00a0the Minority in Parliament even filed a motion for censure against him.<\/p>\n

According to President Akufo-Addo, all foreigners caught in the illegal mining business henceforth would face the law.<\/p>\n

He noted they would be processed under the newly amended illegal miming law which gives a minimum of 15 years imprisonment to convicts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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