LANDS AND Natural Resources Minister, Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh, has denied that the Government of Ghana decided to discontinue the prosecution of Chinese national, Aisha Huang, who was standing trial for illegal mining, in exchange for the $2 billion Sinohydro cash.
While many were expecting Government to jail the Chinese national nicknamed ‘galamsey queen’ to serve as a deterrent, the state rather decided to deport her.
Recently, Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo, justified government’s decision to discontinue the prosecution of Ms. Huang.
According to him, jailing her in Ghana would not have solved the country’s economic problems.
In response to a question from a participant at the Ghanaian Government’s Town Hall Meeting recently in the US on why the Galamsey queen was deported rather than sent to jail, the Senior Minister had observed that the need to protect Ghana’s diplomatic ties with China and the huge investments Chinese companies were making in developing the country’s infrastructure, citing the $2 billion Sinohydro deal contributed to the decision.
He had noted emphatically that “we have a very good relationship with China. Today, the main company that is helping develop the infrastructure system in Ghana is Sinohydro, it is a Chinese Company.”
He added that “it is the one that is going to help process our bauxite and provide about two billion dollars to us…so when there are these kinds of arrangements, there other things behind the scenes.”
According to him, “putting that lady (Aisha Huang) in jail in Ghana is not going to solve your economic problems. It is not going to make you happy or me happy. That’s not important, the most important thing is that she has been deported out of Ghana.”
His response which appeared to suggest that foreign nationals can commit crimes in Ghana and go free once their nations are investing heavily in the country, angered a lot of Ghanaians, especially coming at a time when Tanzania had jailed a Chinese woman 15 years for illegally trading in ivory.
But the Lands Minister updating the nation on Thursday in Accra on the fight against galamsey, says Aisha Huang was not part of the discussion on the Sinohydro deal.
He stressed that “Aisha Huang was not deported because of the Sinohydro loan.”
The Minister further denied reports that some officials of the Akufo-Addo’s administration protected Ms. Huang from being jailed.
He said “no government official thought of shielding her, no government official pampered her.”
Source: Daily Guide
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Is the Ashanti bauxite for the ndc? what business fo you have to talk about it, do you think you own Ashanti for you to give it fir free to Ibrahim Mahama but the Ashantis themselves have no right to enjoy their their property? if the Chinese woman has been exchanged for thst huge sum it us better than the bauxite going to mahama and family after all Ashanti and Ghanaians will benefit ! Nation wreckers, they talk anyhow when they booze, ndc stop drinking too much akpeteshie and think deep! the bauxite is not for you and the owners are not talking why you you hate Ashanti but want to enjoy from them? nonse*nse! Kwaku Boahen and Asafo Adjaye are efie nnipafuo so can't represent them look at their faces!No authentic Ashanti will join such an evil party who plan to kidnap and kill Ghanaians and true to their words set 2 Kumasi markets ablaze ! Krobo Edusei, Mr Jantua and co joined the CPP to send good things to Ashanti hence the first University built by Osagyefo was KNUST and when every market in Ghana got flooded when it rains Osagyefo built the Asafo market story building! these efie nnipa ***barred word*** who call themselves Ashantis were part of the plotters to kill Ghanaians and part of the plotters who burnt the Kumasi markets and no authentic Ashanti will ever do that!
Another DONALD TRUMP is here who for the few million dollars he will get from Saudi Arabia SUPPORTED SUADI execution JAMAL KHASHODI sold their right to help bring his premeditators murderers to justice he rather help them to escape sanction. OH GOD.I don't care whether the person became ***barred word*** in the era or regime of immediate past government or not but how he was caught and left out of the hook whiles citizen like MAJOR MAHAMA was gruesomely murdered on this same galamsey fight for no just cost. people livelihood were taken away from them and burnt others were shut dead because they are Ghanaians after all no one can challenge the authority in power but that is temporal. But the ultimate judge the almighty GOD who cause judgement be hear from heaven on earth against the wicked shall rain hail stones, brimstones against them they shall look for an escape root but cannot find one. HMMMMMM.