The Center for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana says the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) should be invited by the Accra High Court to answer questions regarding the many loopholes leading to the re-entry of ‘Galamsey Queen’ Aisha Huang into Ghana.
According to the Programs Manager for CDD-Ghana, Paul Yaw Abrampah, the GIS must be able to clarify the confusion as to what happened, whether Aisha Huang sneaked out of the country or was deported.
“We have records at the Immigration Service, and definitely the court will have to invite the Immigration to come and testify as to what actually happened. Did the lady flee the country? Was she deported? We should have something from the Ghana Immigration Service, which is the custodian of things that have to do with migration.
“I will be a bit embarrassed if we don’t have documented trends of cases from the Ghana Immigration Service,” He said on GHOne news.
He explained that “as it stands now, the case is getting murky because there are so many stories surrounding it, which of course, shouldn’t be the case. If you are in a country where we have institutions that should have records of migrations, this shouldn’t happen.”
“Just as the National Identification Authority came out to clarify aspects involved in the acquisition of Ghana Cards, I was expecting the Ghana Immigration Service to come out to tell us what actually happened. Rather than leave the story to be circulating through the media.”
Meanwhile, Captain (retired) Nkrabea Effah Dartey, a lawyer for Aisha Huang, has said that his client did not sneak out of the country as submitted by police prosecutors.
This contradicts facts presented by the prosecutors in court on Wednesday, which accused Aisha Huang of sneaking in and out of Ghana after her arrest in 2017.
Addressing the media after court proceedings on Wednesday, 14 September 2022, Mr. Effah Dartey indicated that he was preparing to defend Aisha Huang in 2017 after her arrest just for him to be told that she had been flown out of Ghana.
“I was defending Aisha Huang at the High Court Criminal One room. On the day that we will open our defence, the Attorney General entered nolle prosequi, which means don’t prosecute. Then the Attorney General took my client away from the court.
“The next day, what I heard was that my client has been flown out of Ghana back to China or wherever, but out of Ghana. I didn’t understand why the Attorney General did not allow us to finish the case. I think it was a wrong move,” Mr. Effah Dartah narrated.
He continued: “Today, we were told that she sneaked out of Ghana, which is a blatant untruth. An inaccurate statement which was made to the court, very sad and most unfortunate.”