Galamsey Queen; Ghanaians are Angry at Osafo-Maafo’s Explanations – Kofi Adams

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The former National organiser for the largest opposition party in Ghana, National Democratic Congress, NDC, Kofi Adams has revealed that a majority of Ghanaians are angry at the senior minister for giving an unjustifiable explanation to Aisha Huang’s deportation.

According to the former Organiser for NDC, there are a lot of Ghana citizens facing the law for indulging in illegal mining even lesser than that of the Galamsey queen Aisha Huang but surprisingly, the Galamsey queen is allowed to go Scott free.

In a phone interview with Kofi Adams on the Issues, a political show on Radio 1FM 100.7MHZ on Saturday 20th April 2019, Kofi told the host, Owuraku Asamoah that irrespective of any justification from the ruling NPP or the senior minister, Hon. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, Ghanaians will not forgive them and for that reason they would vote against them come election 2020.

Moreover, he added that they need no apology from Osafo-Maafo when the host asked whether the senior minister should come and apologise.

The Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo says jailing Chinese illegal mining “queen,” En Huang aka Aisha for engaging in illegal mining was not important as it was not going to solve Ghana’s economic problems.

Mr Osaafo-Maafo made the comments when he addressed a recent town hall meeting organised by the government abroad.

In a viral video, he is heard justifying the decision to deport Aisha in December 2018.

She had been arraigned before court on May 9, 2017, for engaging in illegal small-scale mining at Bepotenten in the Amansie Central District in the Ashanti Region.

Read a transcript of what Mr Osafo Maafo said below;

“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. 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 are other things behind the scenes. Putting that lady (Aisha) 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 from Ghana…”

“…I am saying that there are many other things beyond what we see in these matters and everybody is wide awake, the most important thing is that we have banned this, we have established regulations and we are protecting our environment. That is far more important than one Chinese woman who has been deported out of the country”.

By: Radio1News|Ghana