Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has refuted reports that galamsey kingpin Aisha Huang returned to Ghana on February 27, 2022, despite her repatriation in 2018.
Mr. Ablakwa asserts that the Chinese national has been residing between Ghana and Togo for more than three years prior to 2022, in violation of the Comptroller-General’s requirements for her repatriation from that country on December 19, 2018.
“We can confirm that Aisha Huang has footprints of her physical presence in Ghana from as far back as February 27, 2019 – yes, more than 3 years ago, and much longer than originally portrayed,” the North Tongu legislator wrote in a Facebook post.
“Our unimpeachable investigations reveal that even before Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo justified Aisha Huang’s doubtful deportation in April 2019 and long before President Akufo-Addo’s statement on the dubious deportation in September 2019, Aisha Huang was in Ghana travelling on multiple occasions between Ghana and Togo,” he added.
The Minority MP disclosed that Aisha Huang, whose real name is Ruixia Huang and not En Huang, was able to travel back and forth because she had two or more Chinese passports with her.
“One passport bears the name Huang En with passport number: G39575625. It was issued on January 14, 2010. Her other passport has the name Huang Ruixia. Its number is: EE9994609. This particular Chinese passport was issued on January 14, 2019,” he revealed.
According to him, strangely, “both passports have different dates of birth. In her En Huang passport (G39575625) she claims to have been born July 7, 1986 while in the Ruixia Huang passport (EE9994609) she claims to be much older, having been born on November 7, 1975.”
Since it has been rectified that Aisha Huang travelled through approved routes but with a forged document, as stated by government spokesperson on security and governance, Palgrave Boakye- Danquah, Mr Ablakwa firmly believes that her multiple trips to Togo and back to Ghana since February 2019 were not on the blind side of Ghanaian authorities.
“We come to the firm conclusion that the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government ought to have known about her multiple travels between Ghana and Togo at a time we were told she had been deported to China because expert forensic analysis we have conducted on Ghana Immigration Embarkation and Disembarkation Stamps in her Chinese passport using the latest version of the globally acclaimed Video Spectral Comparator (VSC 8000/HS) confirms that all the Ghana Immigration Embarkation/ Disembarkation Stamps in her passport are genuine,” he explained.
He also alleged that Aisha Huang physically presented herself to Ghana Immigration officials at the Aflao border on February 27, 2019 and on April 28, 2019.
Mr Ablakwa argues that it is most bizarre that Aisha Huang’s biometrics didn’t raise alarm at the Aflao border immigration post considering that her biometrics had previously been captured at numerous locations, including at the Kotoka International Airport and the National Identification Authority (NIA).
He is of the assertion that the “galamseyer” had “collaborators within our security institutions” as “her well-stored details as contained in Ghana’s PISCES (Personal Identification Secured Certified Evaluation System)” failed to raise an alarm.
Meanwhile, Mr Ablakwa says investigations carried out by sources close to him have confirmed that Aisha Huang was indeed born on November 7, 1975.
“Her Ghana Non Citizen Identity Card has different information from her China Identity Card – she clearly told NIA officials she was born on July 7, 1986. Curiously, her En Huang passport had not expired on its scheduled expiry date of January 13, 2020 when she secured her Ruixia Huang passport on January 14, 2019,” he further claimed.
For the North Tongu MP, “it’s quite striking how she makes sure her Chinese passports are always issued on January 14.”
He has, therefore, called on the Chinese government to clarify the genuineness of both passports, and if they are genuine, “why Aisha Huang was issued a second passport when her earlier passport hadn’t expired.”
On the other hand, Mr. Ablakwa has questioned the government about why it didn’t “share intelligence on the notorious Aisha Huang with governments of neighbouring countries as is standard practice, which could have limited Aisha’s sinister movements in the sub-region.”
He is also upset that the many Ghanaian officials involved in this “cruel and embarrassing conspiracy against our republic” have not been fired and charged along with Aisha Huang in the current prosecution.
“It remains a mockery of humongous proportions that all of Ghana’s security ministers are still keeping their jobs. When nobody in authority is punished for this international disgrace and for this grand scheme which has left our environment and water bodies destroyed, the only logical interpretation is that national leadership, right from the Presidency, is complicit,” he added.
Aisha Huang, who was arrested on September 2, 2022, in Kumasi, has been arrested for undertaking mining without a licence, facilitating the participation of persons engaged in a mining operation contrary to law, illegal employment of foreign nationals and entering Ghana while prohibited from re-entry.
The Attorney-General is responsible for the aforementioned charges against the Chinese national who is expected to reappear before the Accra Circuit Court 9, together with; Jong Li Hua Huang Jei and Huiad Hiahu on September 27, 2022, for reportedly engaging in the sale and purchase of minerals without a licence and mining without a licence.
On the charges against Aisha Huang, Mr Ablakwa claims that they are “deliberately scanty, narrow, and superficial with the obvious intention of protecting guilty accomplices in high places.”
According to him, the government “cannot be trusted on this and many matters,”, therefore, is calling for a full independent Article 278 Commission of Enquiry which must be broadcast live to all Ghanaians.
Following Aisha Huang’s return, it has been confirmed that the Chinese national was not deported in 2018 as stated by former Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo, but was repatriated.
Unsettled matters
In 2018, Aisha Huang was being prosecuted with four other Chinese accomplices; Gao Jin Chen, Lu Qi Jun, Haibin Gao and Zhang Zhipeng for undertaking small-scale mining operations contrary to Section 99 (1) of the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703), among other charges.
Although it has been clarified that Aisha Huang was repatriated, nothing has been said about her four original accomplices.
Mr Ablakwa has called on the government to inform Ghanaians whether the four were also repatriated or not.
“The fundamental question that arises therefore is: what really happened to Gao Jin Chen, Lu Qi Jun, Haibin Gao and Zhang Zhipeng? Like Aisha Huang – were they deported or repatriated? Did they flee or did they sneak out? Were they allowed to stay in Ghana all these years, and do we know exactly what they are doing in our country? If they ever left, have they also been allowed to sneak back in?” he quizzed.
Source: The Independent Ghana