Bringing back Aisha Huang to face prosecution impossible – Kweku Baako to NDC

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has said the opposition NDC party’s claim that it will trigger extradition of Chinese illegal mining queen Aisha Huang, to face prosecution in Ghana when it wins power is nothing but mere populist talk.

The NDC served notice of its intention on the back of the Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Marfo justification of the Akufo Addo government’s decision to deport Aisha Huang and not rather prosecute her.

Mr Yaw Osafo Marfo told a Town Hall meeting abroad that because of the good relationship Ghana has with the Chinese now and the $2bn Sinohydro barter, it does not serve any Ghanaian interest to have Aisha Huang jailed in Ghana for illegal mining, where she committed the crime in connivance with several others.

But speaking on News File on Saturday, the Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and NDC MP for North Tongu stated that the party will ensure Aisha Huang pays dearly for her crimes in Ghana including the killing of a Ghanaian citizen.

“I have the permission of my party leadership to announce today that a future NDC government will trigger extradition processes to have Aisha Huang to be brought back to be prosecuted in Ghana and I have the full backing of our Flagbearer to make this announcement.”

However, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako speaking on the same show said the NDC pronouncement is for a certain soundbite intended to gain political capital.

He urged the NDC to jettison any such intentions of bringing back Aisha Huang.

“I’m actually intrigued by the new angle my brother Sammy has just disclosed to us that they are going to file for extradition, that is a mission impossible. Chinese are going to collaborate with you to bring their citizen back?

“The Chinese when you put this before them you are going to bring in the murder, you’ve forgotten that many Chinese were arrested in the mines some for murder the Ghana Police has the records but they were deported immediately. Between June 2013 to July 2013, 4,592 Chinese were deported. It’s a sub-culture but we are told by Palmdeti (former Immigration Service PRO) that the 202 Chinese who were being processed voluntarily asked to be sent home and he said it is part of Immigration practice globally so we decided to send them home, and not only these, they were in their thousands.

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako added “So in actual fact, the Chinese are aware and some of these people had committed murder the Police is aware they have the records. I’m saying that the Chinese will be looking at all these things that some of our people who were brought back to China were not doing just illegal mining but in the process committed murder and you brought them to us. So why are we going to discriminate and give you Aisha, they will never give you Aisha.”